Re: [K3d-development] Icon method

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:26 am, Daniel Matthews wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:51 am, Joe Crawford wrote:
> > Styles seem like a really cool idea that just won't work yet.
> >
> > It is seeming to me that adding styles to the icons will ultimately
> > create more work then it saves.
> >
> > For one, there really isn't that much duplication in terms of styles.
> > Also, it doesn't seem like a very artist friendly process, and icons
> > are ultimately artistic things. We are drawing them in inkscape, and
> > if it doesn't have support for our styles
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Ah, that's the problem then, Inkscape still can't do the job (easily).
> Well at least you can use inkscape to give the objects in your icons
> meaningfull names,
>
> see the ID field.
> It is in the Object Properties dialog
> SHIFT+CRTL+O
>
> If your naming convention is structured i.e. parsable then you have in
> effect what I describe because you can look at an objects ID to determine
> the transform of it's stroke and fill fields.
>
> Tim may have some ideas about the way you form you ID values but this form
> will work.
>
> SomeGroup.SomeObject.SomeType.SomeVariant
>
> etc.
>
> See that wasn't so hard after all.
>
> :o)
>

I will spend some time here;
http://w3.org/TR/SVG11/styling.html
and here;
http://w3.org/Amaya/
to see I can find tools/methods to bridge the gap between the Art and the 
science sides of things.

The interesting thing is that plain SVG saved from Inkscape does end up with 
style attributes.

hmmmm

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