I’m trying to use the new SVG import feature to import my company logo. I have this in EPS and I have Adobe Illustrator to export to SVG and I can possibly do some edits there to fix stuff up, but I’m not sure how to handle this problem I have. So the vector graphics look like this:
When I export it to SVG and import it in pcbnew I get something like this (I’ve scaled the logo/company name differently):
Fix the o’s. They are interpreted as two closed circles, both being filled:
I don’t see a lot of options on the import side of things, but is there something I can do when I export instead? I don’t have a lot of experience with Illustrator or similar stuff…
Installed the plugin, but when trying to use it I get this warning:
The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension.Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml
Technical details:
No module named lxml
Trying to install with
sudo /opt/local/bin/port install py27-lxml
But error persists and the plugin doesn’t do anything. I’ll give it a few more hours…
Update:
Ah, ok, when installing inkscape I did an s softlink as suggested:
which is a really bad idea since starting apps from the ui of osx doesn’t retain any paths, for instance the paths that macports installed stuff to. Need to just start it cli:
`> /opt/local/bin/inkscape``
and it worked. Even did an export, so now I just need to understand how that plugin works.
i would be interested to hear if you can get this to work - I installed inkscape (via the installer @Rene_Poschl mentioned) but never managed to get svg2shenzen to run - can’t rightly recall the error but remember I spent a while down a rabbit hole.
With a bit of fiddling, now got this to launch on macOS. Main thing that hadn’t done is when you unzip the archive for the svg2shenzen, you have to put just the contents of the unzipped directory (NOT simply the unzipped directory itself) into ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/
Obviously didn’t try very hard last time
you have to put just the contents of the unzipped directory
I did this mistake too, makes us two, lets blame the docs
So, after successfully having access to the plugin, does it also actually work for you? It doesn’t for me, the output are always empty footproints for my example svg in the gist a few comments up
