help! Can't view this svg file

[ehume]

Well, LF, you made me do some homework. First of all Chrome (albeit not chromium) asked me about sharing (which I avoid) before it opened a file. Firefox OTOH opened it just fine. PSP just shows a lavender swatch. Affinity shows the image as it is. Inkscape, of course, showed it true. Here is the SVG (the website will not upload my copy of the SVG file)(the png was exported from Inkscape.):

The SVG file is located here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... iverse.svg

[LeviFiction]

I don't know why we're doing this back and forth. This isn't a competition on which one is better. It's just an alternative option is anyone wants it.

Here you can see what it looks like in action. I try several SVGs to show it off. First I try importing into PSP, then I run the script to demonstrate the difference in how PSP imports, if it can at all, and how my script imports. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NYz8hD ... YeJB5/view

This script is not perfect. Although it may not be be clear in the video on the History of the universe SVG the text rendering is completely different. But all of the other visual effects work just fine.

In every other SVG text and gradients, and effects all appear as they are meant to.

On my computer Inkscape is excruciatingly slow to open and load files. So I use the command line like this. inkscape SVGfile.svg -e svgfile.png That will load in and export a PNG file without opening the UI. Which, on my computer, is the better option.

Doing a comparison. Both my script and Inkscape command line averaged about 5 seconds importing into PSP via script. The only differences came with the History of the Universe and Linux Distribution SVG imports.

History of the Universe: my script importedd it in 5 seconds. Inkscape in 15.

Linux distribution History: My script 15 seconds, Inkscape 1.5 minutes.

For the superior text rendering that extra slowdown may be worth it. I won't even attempt to fix the text issue unless someone actually wants this script.

[ehume]

Impressive results. But I can't figure out the script. You mention "electron application." What is that? Further down you mention that you did "edited the Nik Script." I did not know Nik had a script. How does that work?

[LeviFiction]

The Nik script by JSJ is a script to run an external application like the NIK standalone apps and then return the result as a new layer into PSP. You can find it here: viewtopic.php?f=104&t=64877

I made custom edits to that script to work with my program.

Electron is a a cross-platform development framework for creating desktop applications using HTML and javascript. I wrote a very simple application in javascript to convert SVG files into PNGs and compiled it into a desktop application using Electron. I then ussed the Nik script to call this desktop application and import the results into PSP.

As I've said I can do this same thing with Inkscape, but it requires some extra bits to deal with the wait times.

[ehume]

I looked at a script with Notepad++. JoeB does like structured programming. That is a good thing. It reminds me of the thousands of lines of CSS code that made up my old themes in Firefox.

I also looked at the Electron home page. I did not see a DL button. I'll look again tomorrow when I am not so tired.

Thanks

[LeviFiction]

Electron relies on Node.js. So you need to install node with the npm (node package manager). You can download a starter package from git or start one from scratch using npm to create a new node project and then calling npm install electron (full vali instructions on the electron site) to install electron in the project and make it a dependency of the project.