| ID: | 4784 |
| From: | rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:40:41 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] the svg viewer problem - and a solution |
| replies: | 4786 from ka...@aspodata.se |
Hi all, as you may see on mailing list traffic and svn traffic, the past few months I was real busy with route-rnd which left pcb-rnd going slowly. But that's okay, it's as planned - pcb-rnd after the big data model rewrite is not getting more stable with a bit less changes per release. Meanwhile, in route-rnd my code emits svg debug images, because I need to draw with lines and arcs with round cap stroke at different widths and color. TL;DR: new svg viewer: http://repo.hu/projects/rsvg-zoompan/ One would think by 2021 someone wrote an usable svg viewer, but no luck... I only needed three things in a simple CLI free software: zoom, pan and quick reload. And all viewiers I ever tried failed at least one, but often two of these. So after struggling a lot with half-working solitions, I finally sat down and forked one of the viewers and fixed it up. I started with inkview, but that looked hopeless. Then I switched to rsvg's mini viewer, which was more suitable. Now I have a fork of an a few years old, pre-rust rsvg which has a minimal viewer that can zoom, pan and reload. Unfortunately it's not an -rnd project: - rsvg is huge - dependencies are extensive - it's based on autotools so no portability (it really even fails to configure and compile cleanly on a clean Debian, lol) - it uses gtk3; we tried it on a few different systems, and each had a small difference in gtk3 patch level version (last number) so we experienced a different set of bugs on each system. Unfortunately the whole rsvg lib is bundled with gtk so it's not really possible to just drop gtk3 and use a toolkit that just works. Best regards, Igor2
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4784 [pcb-rnd] the svg viewer problem - and a solution from rn...@igor2.repo.hu
4786 Re: [pcb-rnd] the svg viewer problem - and a solution from ka...@aspodata.se
4788 Re: [pcb-rnd] the svg viewer problem - and a solution from rn...@igor2.repo.hu