SVG2PNG

[Claus Bech Rasmussen - TELMORE <cb...@telmore.dk>]

Hi all,

So I see all over the place that Forrest will convert SVG to, say, PNGs
on the fly if I simply drop it in a certain folder. I just don't seem to
find an explanation anywhere? I guess it's obvious if you know how, but
where can I find instructions of how this is actually done? 

Can I get to the point where I just point to SVGs in my documents and
automagically they'll be converted when viewed on the web?

/claus

Re: SVG2PNG

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

Claus Bech Rasmussen - TELMORE wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So I see all over the place that Forrest will convert SVG to, say, PNGs
> on the fly if I simply drop it in a certain folder. I just don't seem to
> find an explanation anywhere? I guess it's obvious if you know how, but
> where can I find instructions of how this is actually done? 
> 
> Can I get to the point where I just point to SVGs in my documents and
> automagically they'll be converted when viewed on the web?
> 
> /claus

Just put a .svg file in an images location (e.g. 
src/documentation/content/mylogo.svg) and reference it with <img 
src="mylogo.png">.

Forrest uses Cocoon to define what conversions will happen.  The 
svg->png conversion uses the Batik library.

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Re: SVG2PNG

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Claus Bech Rasmussen - TELMORE wrote:
> So I see all over the place that Forrest will convert SVG to, say, PNGs
> on the fly if I simply drop it in a certain folder. I just don't seem to
> find an explanation anywhere? I guess it's obvious if you know how, but
> where can I find instructions of how this is actually done? 

Look at the document in your 'forrest seed' site
samples/samples.xml and search the source for "png".
If there is a matching filename.svg file in the
xdocs/images/ directory, then it is used for the
svg2png generation, otherwise forrest looks for
a matching pre-generated filename.png

However, be careful. There is an entry in our Issue Tracker
about some SVG document type declarations causing trouble.

-- 
David Crossley