svg file support

[gimp-artist]

Gimp supports svg file format. I downloaded some gradients, which is svg file format. I placed it in the folder I specified in the preference dialog for gradients. Then I restarted gimp and refreshed gradients.

Nothing happens. Nothing is easy really. How do I make it appear in the gradients list?

[Ofnuts]

Gimp can load SVG files as images, and can import/export SVG files to/from paths. It won't use SVG files anywhere else.

If Gimp had complete/full support of the SVG format, there would be no need for InkScape...

[rich2005]

Just to add to Ofnuts post.

This is a gradient saved as an SVG file. As a Gimp gradient it looks like the text on the left. As an SVG the text on the right.

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/XAtCnbr.jpg You can see that they are very different.

You can open the SVG in Gimp as an image and there are tools to create a Gimp .ggr (gradient) file. The G'mic plugin is one of them.

This a gradient made from the SVG. screenshot https://i.imgur.com/3OEoMXU.jpg

Gimp .ggr gradient files are used elsewhere, Inkscape for example.

[Espermaschine]

http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1256

[Ofnuts]

(04-30-2018, 10:21 AM)Espermaschine Wrote: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1256

Learn something everyday, but the gradient there doesn't seem to work right (no blend in the first section), untill I change the first stop to be "00".

[Espermaschine]

It worked for a while, and you could duplicate the gradient in Gimp and then it was automatically converted into a .ggr file.
Was useful for making complex gradients in Inkscape and transfer to Gimp.

Tim from gimplearn also wrote a script to make svg gradients i think, or didnt he ?

I havent tried it in 2.10, but i know for a fact that Gimp gradients work in Inkscape (after import it appears in the Fill & Stroke Dialogue and can be applied to objects), which is nice when you need a gradient with many stops, like gold.