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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: SVG source of KDE's icons
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () phoenuxos ! com>
Date:       2006-09-03 3:50:57
Message-ID: 200609022351.00030.greeneg () phoenuxos ! com
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On Saturday 02 September 2006 23:42, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> > On Friday 01 September 2006 07:43, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking for the SVG version of KDE's icons, I need to create a
> >> derivate of the "transform" icon for the perspective tool of krita, and
> >> as I want our transform tool and perspective tool to have a similar
> >> icon, I wanted to use the transform icon as a base, but I can't find
> >> where is the svg version of it ? Can someone help me ?
> >>
> >> (I doubt it's really the correct list, but somehow, even if it's not
> >> code, it's a developement question, isn't it ?)
> >
> > The SVG sources are held by Everaldo. While some are in SVN, most of them
> > are not. If others on the list have better information about this than
> > what I know, please correct me.
>
> Actually, the sources are AI files. This caused problems because Adobe
> added extensions to SVG and export to SVG results in SVGs that will only
> render correctly with the Adobe SVG NS plugin.  So, if he released the
> SVG files, they contain Adobe SVG extensions that really need to be
> removed with a text editor for them to be usable.
>
> A possible solution to this problem would have been to provide the AI
> files that had Acrobat Reader display enabled.  But he doesn't seem to
> be willing to do this.
>
> He has released some AI files and some of those do have Acrobat Reader
> display enabled.  I have tried working with some of these.  But,
> currently this wasn't a total solution to the problem.  Although it is
> theoretically possible to print to a PS file and convert it to an EPS,
> this results in EPS files that render correctly with The GIMP, but won't
> open in Karbon and won't convert with other programs.
>
> The problem appears to be that his AI files are much to complex -- much
> more complex than is needed for icons 128x128 and smaller.
>
> And, although he claims the LGPL license he is not willing to release
> all the source files (AI) as required by the license so that someone
> with a copy of Adobe Illustrator could work with them.

Thanks for the info, James. I remembered some of the argument about this on 
core-devel, but had forgotten the specifics.

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