[Rails-devel] SVG Tiles

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

Over the last couple days I've been scouring the web to find some way
of converting the tiles generated by TileDesigner into the SVG format.

As we discussed many months ago, TileDesigner's abilty to export to
SVG is broken and unusable.

So...  I've been able to export the tiles in PostScript (ps) format,
and use a utility called pstoedit to convert them to SVG.

Unfortunately, pstoedit adds a few things to the image that requires
further adjustments.

Doubly unfortunate is that I haven't found a way to automate these
adjustments. Which means that I'll have to manually tweak each and
every one of the 460-some tiles.

However, once this is done, I can start looking at modifying the code
to use the Batik library to display the SVG tiles instead of those
ugly GIFs.

---Brett.