[Spam] RE: RE: [Geomedia-l] jpeg to svg

Thu Feb 15 23:19:47 CST 2007

My guess is that it might have to do with performance and 'let's start with something simple and see what the customer wants'.

GeoMedia doesn't support bezier curves in SVG for example, only straight lines. I believe shading isn't supported either. Might also be that these symbols are internally mapped to another format, that doesn't support these items.

Bottomline, it's not that easy to draw a correct SVG symbol for GeoMedia...

Considering the use of text inside an SVG element is nice, but might also be a difficult one, be sure the viewBox settings are correct to get all text displayed.

Kris

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Datum: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:50:41 -0800
Von: Jeff_Hobbs at sjwater.com
An: Dave.Blackstone at dot.state.oh.us, geomedia-l at lists.directionsmag.com
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> Not sure. Don't know enough about SVG. I do know that GM uses SVG
> "symbols" as far as I understand. If I understand it correctly, this
> provides the ability to create "parametric" symbols or the ability to
> place text (provided from the feature's table) inside the symbol e.g.
> highway shields. If you haven't noticed, when you select an SVG symbol in
> 6.0 in the advanced symbology section, you get a check box that you may
> check. When you check it, you're able to fill the symbol with text from
> the symbol's feature.
>  
> An "SVG Symbol" may simply be a subset of the SVG standard. 
>  
> Good question. Anybody else have a better reply here?
>  
> Jeff
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> A reason GeoMedia only supports a subset of SVG elements? 
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> Great lead Kris. It's important to note that the SVG files that GM
> supports are not the SVG structure that is exported from AI (or at least
> it wasn't when I last tested). 
> 
> You should theoretically also be able to import the image into the layout
> window and vectorize it in the window. Then you can covert the layout
> window to a symbol. Once it's a symbol, you should be able to convert it
> to SVG. It's a lot of work, but MAY be more straightforward then trying to
> figure out the difference between the file produced by Inkscape and the GM
> structure. 
> 
> Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: geomedia-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net
> [mailto:geomedia-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net] On Behalf Of Kris
> Nackaerts
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 04:16
> To: Claudio Silva; geomedia-l at lists.directionsmag.com
> Subject: Re: RE: [Geomedia-l] jpeg to svg
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> Download Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) opensource, SVG based drawing
> tool). It has an excellent bitmap trace function with many options and is
> really stable and fast.
> 
> You'll need to do some manual editing of the SVG file since GeoMedia
> requires some specific structure.
> 
> In case someone is handy with Python, it should be possible to write a
> small plugin that prepares the SVG for GeoMedia.
> 
> Kris
> 
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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:05:42 -0300
> Von: "Claudio Silva" <cads at tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> An: geomedia-l at lists.directionsmag.com
> CC: 
> Betreff: RE: [Geomedia-l] jpeg to svg
> 
> > Hi, Jorge.
> > 
> > One solution is to open you jpg file in a graphics editor like corel 
> > draw or illustrator and trace the corresponding drawing (vectorization).
> > I mean, you open your jpg file and then let it in the background while 
> > draw a vector version of it in the foreground.  Then You can save your 
> > drawing in svg format.
> > 
> > Tip: These editors have a trace tool that do an automatic 
> > vectorization (off course, need some manual adjust! ;) ).
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: geomedia-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net
> > > [mailto:geomedia-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net] On Behalf Of Jorge 
> > > Antunes
> > > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:29 PM
> > > To: geomedia-l at lists.directionsmag.com
> > > Subject: [Geomedia-l] jpeg to svg
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Just wondering, do you know a way to convert a jpg image file to svg 
> > > file format, so it can be usable as a symbol in geomedia?
> > > Best regards,
> > > Jorge Antunes
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