[ubuntu-art] Problem with SVG files

Ryan Prior ryanprior at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 04:28:34 GMT 2008


I've noticed over time that many, many SVGs render differently in Nautilus
than they do in Inkscape. I always just figured the Nautilus SVG renderer is
half-assed and that nobody really cares -- the same seems to be true of
Firefox, which renders SVGs very differently from Inkscape as well.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Monday 08 December 2008 22:48:59 Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > On Monday 08 December 2008 22:19:34 spg76 wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > I have a bit of a problem and maybe someone could help me.
> > > For some reason, SVG files that I created in Inkscape doesn't display
> > > properly in Ubuntu.
> > > I show you a couple of examples.
> > >
> > > applications-graphics in Inkscape:
> > > http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1228770070.png
> > > applications-graphics in Nautilus:
> > > http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1228770083.png
> > >
> > > applications-games in Inkscape:
> > > http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1228771049.png
> > > applications-games in Nautilus:
> > > http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1228771052.png
> > >
> > > I have the same problem with the user-trash icon from the Breathe icon
> > > theme (and some other files).
> > > I don't know how I can avoid this to happen.
> >
> > I do not see what the problem is...if you mean the nautilus only shows
> the
> > graphics inside the canvas, this is not a bug but a feature. If I
> > misunderstood, sorry :-)
>
> Erm, now I see the problem in the second pics. My guess is that this is a
> bug
> in librsvg (which is what renders the svg files). Perhaps someone has
> already
> reported this bug against librsvg, taking a look might be worthwhile.
>
> --
> Ken
>
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