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- colouredmirrorball January 2014
- jazzisfaction January 2014
- PhiLho January 2014
importing svg
Hey there,
I love to work with svg images. I'm running a Mac OS 10.9.1.
I bought BestImage Converter in the MacApp shop because it seems easily to convert normal pictures to svg-files.
But it doesn't work.
I always get:
Ignoring title tag.
Ignoring desc tag.
Ignoring image tag.
...and no image shows up.
Can anybody help me how I can sole these problems? I don'y have the money to buy Illustrator. Isn't there another way?
Do you HAVE TO convert photos with Illustrator to svg-files. Otherwise you can't use them in processing?
I'm a bit hopeless here.
Thanx so much
Peer
Answers
Can you load in other svg images? It might be your program just includes raster images in a svg file (which is possible) instead of vector art, but obviously you don't get real vector art you can import. Possibly you just loaded in a raster image and saved as .svg, but that never works in any program. You need to trace it first. Does your program have a trace option?
Hey, thanx for your answer. It's this programme: http://www.jalada.eu/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336&Itemid=399&lang=de_AT
And yes, of course it works with the svg images of processing which are in the media-folder when you install the programme.
It's just so frustrating. I can't find a -payable- programme which can convert jpeg or png into svg.
The programme which I bought doesn't have a trace function. Thanx again. It would be cool if you would have some more advice for me.
That doesn't quite look like a dedicated svg program. A free program is Inkscape (which has a basic trace function), not sure if that works on mac.
Yes, it looks like it "converts" bitmap images to SVG by just embedding them as bitmap in the SVG file. No tracing there!
Indeed, Inkscape has a Mac version and can do some trace. It is a useful free tool to have if you want to manipulate SVG files.
Ok...thanx so much guys...another 18euros for nothing :-P PhiLho, I just ask myself: how can you see that only a bitmap is embedded into the SVG file? What I'm looking for is to take photos of nature with abstract structures and manipulate them within processing which is very powerful if I have them as SVG files....so the big question is really how one can make easily SVG files out of normal photos.....
An easy way is to open the svg image in a program and zoom in. If you start to see individual pixels, it's a raster image.
Creating SVG files from a photo is not a trivial task. The result will always be a "best fit" approximation. Inkscape has a basic trace function, but how well it can convert depends entirely on the source image. It works best with high-contrast images. You'll need to experiment a bit to get a decent result.
Thanx so much guys !! That helps a lot..... I think I'll skip svg images and create my own structures with processing...that's more creative anyway ;-) all the best