Re: [Rails-devel] ***UNCHECKED*** Tile Creation in rails

[Alex M. <ha...@ha...>]

On 11/8/2016 12:27 PM, Martin Brumm wrote:
> Instructions for Inkscape
>
> If tiles are modified with Inkscape, before saving, set the following 
> properties before saving the new image:
>
>   * Under File | DocumentProperties:
>       o First press 'Fit page to selection'. For edited images, this
>         should change the size to Width=393.00 and Height=341.00.
>       o For unknown reasons, TileDesigner adds extra whitespace below
>         the tile image. To emulate this, change the Height to 357.50.
>   * Then save the tile.
>
> For newly created tiles, make sure that the size ends up identically, 
> i.e. Width=393.00 and Height=357.00
>

Thanks for this.

My experience was that when editing an existing tile with Inkscape, even 
a simple Open-and-save would cause major scaling problems with the 
standard tiles.

Through trial and error I was able to work out that changing the page 
size seems to have an effect on the mis-scaling result. By tweaking the 
page size to 400x400 (Leaving the tile image itself at 393x357) I 
*think* I got the scaling just perfect that way.

Not sure if that's intentional and should be documented or what, but it 
definitely seems odd to me. I would expect the program to either expect 
the SVG page size to be at some standard size and want the image data to 
match that size -- or ignore the page size and scale the image data to 
the size needed.