[KLUG Members] (Inkscape) Stumped at the beginning

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Ok, I have to make an icon/logo - and it seems Inkscape is the place to
> > do this as it can then be resized like a maniac.  But if I make a logo
> > in Inkscape, and something like a letter sized canvas, what is the
> > procedure to go about using this in other, non-svg images.  For instance
> > I'd have to embed to logo in a pair of gifs: on 173x156 and another
> > 182x30 (the size and format are not for my choosing).  Can I paste an
> > SVG image into a GIMP canvas and resize it?  I'm ignorant enough to not
> > really be able to feel how to approach this kind of problem.
> I'm just going to third the other two guys' responses. Assuming Inkscape
> does exports, you should be able to generate GIFs, PNGs, JPGs or
> whatever bitmap format you need. I haven't had the chance to try
> Inkscape seriously yet, but with any luck, it should let you control the
> exported image's dots per inch (DPI). Set the image to the actual size
> you want, match your output device's DPI onthe export, and that should
> give you about as clean an image as you're going to get.
> Good luck!

It worked. The export seemed cranky.  I would select what I wanted, pick
export to bitmap, then set the size in the selection tab of the export
dialog and it would only export part of the selection....  didn't seem
to make sense.

So I grouped all the objects selected and dragged the corner till the
box said I was at the desired size, then exported the entire page and
cropped it with gimp.  But I got what I wanted and the images look very
sharp.

A second bite was that converting to GIF (256 colors!) totally mangled
the images.  So I exported them as PNG, renamed them to .gif, and....
the application is perfectly happy.   They get downloaded to the browser
(wrong extension and all) and are merrily displayed.