Moved from the splash screen thread.

Sandro Cumerlato wrote

I'd like to recommend SVG format for new graphics.

This is about a scalable vector graphics format. The idea is not to change the graphics design but to make everything scalable.

Sandro mentioned this idea to me privately, too, after having very small icons in a Windows 8.1 machine. I think it is a good idea but technically challenging. It involves choosing a graphics library etc.

Sandro, could you please take lead in this issue. You are a talented graphics programmer after all. Make a plan and discuss it here. None of the current core developers is working on such issues, thus (difficult) questions may not be answered.
When learning code, questions come up and usually they are answered, but after certain point nobody has answers. You just have to figure things out by yourself.

Juha

Juha Manninen wrote

I think it is a good idea but technically challenging. It involves choosing a graphics library etc.

Lazarus includes AggPas which is very good at reading and rendering SVG images. AggPas doesn't required any 3rd party libraries.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Hi,
Inkscape is excellent open source application for designing vector graphics. There is also console tool for converting svg->png: rsvg-convert ?
I use this script which converts all svg files in directory to png images with various sizes and places them to directories:
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#!/bin/bash
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for i in *.[Ss][Vv][Gg]; do rsvg-convert $i -w 64 -h 64 -o ../default64normal/`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done ?
for i in *.[Ss][Vv][Gg]; do rsvg-convert $i -w 48 -h 48 -o ../default48normal/`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done ?
for i in *.[Ss][Vv][Gg]; do rsvg-convert $i -w 32 -h 32 -o ../default32normal/`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done ?
for i in *.[Ss][Vv][Gg]; do rsvg-convert $i -w 24 -h 24 -o ../default24normal/`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done ?
for i in *.[Ss][Vv][Gg]; do rsvg-convert $i -w 16 -h 16 -o ../default16normal/`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done ? ?? ?
V.

The last time I checked aggpas for SVG support I came to the conclusion that the SVG parser was very basic/primitive and decided to implement my own parser. Drawing the svg parts is however not a problem.

Marc