10 Jun
2012
10 Jun
'12
10:11 p.m.
The problem is not TDE, per se. I copied the image to
3.5.10
and the same thing happened. The image looks fine in
gwenview and karbon14 but displays the white block in the
menu icon or session exit dialog. If there is a weird corner
case with displaying svgz images, then TDE seems to have
inherited the problem from KDE3.
Would you send me another copy with everything ungrouped? I
then can tinker with bringing objects forward in the layers
and see what might help. I'm a proverbial fish out of water
with this stuff but I will tinker in karbon14 somewhat with
whatever you send. I'm no artist and I can't figure out
anything in karbon14. We inherited an app with no help
handbook. Slackware does not come with inkscape and for me
to build the package means building about a dozen
dependencies --- lots of time. Even if I built, I have no
idea how to work with these kinds of apps --- so more time
trying to learn some basics.
Possibly the problem is the way the file is compressed with
gzip. I created the svgz file like this:
gzip go.svg --suffix z
Does inkscape have the ability to save as svgz rather than
svg? If so, we can try that too.
Probably not a gzip problem. I just performed an experiment. With gwenview I saved the svg
as ppm and then used potrace to create a new svg. Then I compressed to svgz with gzip.
The white block artifact disappeared in the menu and session exit dialog icons. Here is
the svg->ppm->potrace result:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/go.svgz
Likely then there is something amiss with the svg from inkscape.
In the retraced svgz, the "T" is not as sharply defined as the original
"K." Unless we can't find a cause for the artifact the potrace image
probably will suffice as a replacement. I'd like us first to try another round or
two.
Darrell