Would there be a text based editor for svg?
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > >On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. > > >>My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . > > >>I have multiple configurations of some programs installed. > > >> > > >>I would like to use icons that are semantically related. > > >>I would like to use custom icons that are 48 high X 96 wide. > > >>These would be created joining two 48x48 icons side by side. > > >> > > >>Would the MATE panel &/or desktop accept these? > > >>Assuming it would, is there a simple graphic program that would > > >>accept to identically formatted images and place them side by > > >>side in a new image? > > >>If MATE cannot accept rectangular rather than square icons, I > > >>suspect I can create an app that can (I think I've seen Tcl/Tk > > >>that could be adapted). > > > > > >I don't know what icons MATE will accept. > > > > > > > > >As for making icons, the defacto OSS graphics editor is GIMP: > > > > > >https://www.gimp.org/ > > > > > > > > >Or, if you want a CLI app and/ or a library that you can call from > > >your favorite programming/ scripting language to exactly what you > > >want: > > > > > >https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php > > > > > > > Thanks for trying. I had already downloaded both. > > Good, you're almost there. > > > The are *TOO* powerful to be useful. > > Nonsense. > > > Using text processing as an analogy, I wish to concatenate two 10 > > character strings to obtain a single 20 character string. > > There's no comparison unless the images are just raw scans. > Even then, concatenation will only succeed if the scans have the > appropriate orientation. > > > LaTeX could likely do that. But it's not appropriate. > > Bad choice, LaTeX. Emacs would be a better analogy. > > Anyway, what you want is > convert thing1 thing2 +append output-thing > > Cheers, > David. > >
