SVGwlx 0.0.2 - lister plugin

[fenix_productions]

This plugin allows you to view SVG / SVGZ files thumbnails.

For proper work it requires:
- Inkscape - converts SVG to temporary PNG.

Please remember to set valid Inkscape path in INI file.

Download:
http://cid-e12762cbdafb3c47.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/TC/svgwlx%7C_0.0.2.zip

Special thanks to Alextp for PNGDelphi sources

[roentgen]

It's looking nice so far... and rather fast considering it's loading inkscape.

[flm404]

It works... But slow. Inkview works faster... Also, there are some typos in readme.txt ("Inkscpae", "thwo"). Thanks for plugin anyway!

[fenix_productions]

2flm404
Inkview faster?
For viewing - yes but not for thumbnails.

Unfortunately: there is no good and free SVG viewer with thumbs. Viewing in lister is switched off by default because of speed. Using IV or XnV for SVG thumbs is waste of the time because they give very bad output for it.

This plugin will be quicker if I successfully get PNG handling with GDI+ (or libpng) in Borland C++ Builder 6. Without that: IV (or XnV) conversion is needed.

Being honest: I wrote this plugin because multiLister does not support thumbnails mode and I wanted to see all of my SVGs quickly.

[flm404]

fenix_productions, it is slow any way .

p.s.: i did some googling and found RENESIS Windows Thumbnail Plugin. It works pretty fast, but need some more testing. Standalone player had some crashs here...

p.p.s.: sorry for offtopic.

[fenix_productions]

2flm404

fenix_productions, it is slow any way .

Similar speed for other solutions here. With TC's caching enabled only first time browsing might be slow but after that - works perfect (at least for me).

p.s.: i did some googling and found RENESIS Windows Thumbnail Plugin. It works pretty fast, but need some more testing. Standalone player had some crashs here...

This is not portable solution. Currently my plugin has the same problem but I want to add %COMMANDER_PATH% support to fix it.

As for player... I've never got it to work correctly.

Thank you for your thoughts after all.

[nsp]

This is not portable solution. Currently my plugin has the same problem but I want to add %COMMANDER_PATH% support to fix it.

Did you try image-magic convert command ?
or the svg2swf-2 stuff on sourceforge ??

Inkscape is too big for my small pendrive !

[m^2]

Inkscape takes just 11.5 MB when optimized properly.
But I agree that it's overkill.

[fenix_productions]

2nsp
ImageMagic was my first shot but it takes 67MB after installation and conversion quality (for SVG) is very far from good.

svg2swf converts to SWF only but they use libsvg which might be handy. I will take a look on that.

[Alextp]

2fp
Didn\t you try to use PngDelphi (site is down) for handling PNG?
It's fast.

[cheesecake]

Very Good. It will better if WLX can combine with WDX, I mean, 1 file to have both wlx & wdx capabilities, like font 0.9.

[fenix_productions]

2Alextp
No because I couldn't find proper download source and I feel strange when I have to use Delphi resources in Builder.

I have also took a look on ATViewer's code (and ATImageBox) but it is still overkill.

2cheesecake
I would rather like to keep it separated, sorry. I am not pro-developer and it is easier for me to handle C++ in smaller doses

[Alextp]

2fenix_productions
anyway, if you want to use it (PngDelphi), just mail me for source code.

[fenix_productions]

Version 0.0.2 is out and PNG files are handled by plugin itself.

[Alextp]

fp

searched for rsvg.exe, found
prase 'Distribute also rsvg-view.exe and rsvg.exe'
in google

So rsvg maybe available.

Using rsvg.exe you can convert svg without that program..