1. Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by irv Sep 11, 2016
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Please find an .svg image file, any .svg file, save it in a folder, and open the folder so that you see icons of the files therein.
Do you see a thumbnail of the .svg, or a generic icon? Do you see thumbnails of other image types?
Report results along with Win version here. Thank you.
2. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by Spock Sep 11, 2016
- 1606 views
Please find an .svg image file, any .svg file, save it in a folder, and open the folder so that you see icons of the files therein.
Do you see a thumbnail of the .svg, or a generic icon? Do you see thumbnails of other image types?
Report results along with Win version here. Thank you.
I have Windows 7 (64 bit) and the icon is the generic Internet Explorer icon. Doubleclicking the file opens the app.
Spock
3. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by _tom (admin) Sep 11, 2016
- 1631 views
Please find an .svg image file, any .svg file, save it in a folder, and open the folder so that you see icons of the files therein.
Do you see a thumbnail of the .svg, or a generic icon? Do you see thumbnails of other image types?
Report results along with Win version here. Thank you.
Testing win10 on my netbook.
- .svg image shows an "e" icon
- opened in Edge web browser
- .png shows a "generic picture" icon
- opened in photo viewer
- .bmp shows a "generic picture" icon
- opened in photo viewer
_tom
4. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by petelomax Sep 11, 2016
- 1630 views
Windows 10 Pro
Apparently near zero native support for .svg files - windows paint, paint.net (even after latest update), and greenfish icon editor all refused to open svg files, and windows explorer displays a generic icon, for svg files, whereas png/ico/jpg/gif/bmp all show decent thumbnails. Images are however correctly shown in IE, Edge, Chrome, and Opera.
5. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by irv Sep 12, 2016
- 1572 views
Ok thanks. I guess I'll have to convert all the GTK icons to .png or something that Windows can handle.
6. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 12, 2016
- 1558 views
Ok thanks. I guess I'll have to convert all the GTK icons to .png or something that Windows can handle.
Sorry, I guess I'm a bit late to this thread. I could have told you straightaway that Windows does not natively support SVG images.
You can use ImageMagick, Inkscape, or svgexport to convert the SVG images to PNG. You could automate the process with a Makefile.
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9853325/how-to-convert-a-svg-to-a-png-with-image-magick
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18192250/convert-and-resize-svg-to-png
# Makefile to convert all SVG images to PNG in the current directory (untested).
# To run, just type 'make' at the command line. Use -j for multiple threads.
#
# $ make -j4 # runs 4 jobs at once
all : $(patsubst %.svg,%.png,$(wildcard *.svg))
%.png : %.svg
convert -size 16x16 $< $@
-Greg
8. Re: Windows users, a 10 sec. test
- Posted by _tom (admin) Sep 12, 2016
- 1531 views
I now have a win1064 running.
Unlike my win1032 , I'm having trouble installing a gtk runtime. What package are you using?
_tom
