Re: RFC: require librsvg to implement SVG image support

[Aaron Hill]

On 2023-01-10 2:51 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Le 10/01/2023 à 03:25, Aaron Hill a écrit :
> > I have had some success with converting EPS to SVG (albeit with some 
> > manual correction for color spaces)
>
>
> I'm curious about this, can you say more about these
> corrections? (If we do this, it's important to offer an
> optimal workflow to convert EPS to SVG, to advise in
> the release notes.)

It was some time ago, so I will need to track down the EPS.  At the 
time, I suspected that the source artwork might have been specifying 
colors in CMYK whereas the SVG ended up using RGB.  But since the colors 
in question were branding-related, I was somewhat paranoid about 
matching the official Pantone exactly.  I found a few reference 
resources online that listed the equivalent RGB and fixed up the SVG.

I had used inkscape via the command-line to do the conversion, but I 
cannot recall which version I would have installed back then.  It is 
possible there were color-handling bugs in inkscape itself, and perhaps 
those have been fixed so this is a non-issue.


-- Aaron Hill