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svg file support - gimp-artist - 04-30-2018
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?
RE: svg file support - Ofnuts - 04-30-2018
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...
RE: svg file support - rich2005 - 04-30-2018
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.
RE: svg file support - Espermaschine - 04-30-2018
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1256
RE: svg file support - Ofnuts - 04-30-2018
(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".
RE: svg file support - Espermaschine - 04-30-2018
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.