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Jasper Akhkharu wrote:drathe... did you do any of the coding when you helped out Derfel? Ive run into some errors with getting the cygwin stuff to work with the older tools that HS uses. I think it may be a 64-bit problem, so was wondering if you are using a 32 or 64 system. HeroScribe is an older program, so I'm wondering if the tools may have become outdated to the point where they aren't compatible with a 64-bit.
StratosVX wrote:I've been able to use Photoshop to get my raster and sample images, and I use Terminal to make the gzip files for the vector images. I can get the icons to show up in Heroscribe just fine and they get placed on the map just fine. The issue I'm running into is with the exported files. When I export the maps as png images, everything lines up just as I had laid them out. However, when I export as an .eps file (my preferred method of export), none of the icons are where I placed them. They are shifted so the center of my icon is lined up on the top right corner (I believe it was the top right) of where I had actually placed them on the map. Adjusting the offset doesn't fix the issue, it just adjusts where the icon gets laid out on the map, but the eps export still has the same issue. I emailed Derfel to see if he has any ideas why it is doing that, but I haven't heard back yet.
whitebeard wrote:StratosVX wrote:I've been able to use Photoshop to get my raster and sample images, and I use Terminal to make the gzip files for the vector images. I can get the icons to show up in Heroscribe just fine and they get placed on the map just fine. The issue I'm running into is with the exported files. When I export the maps as png images, everything lines up just as I had laid them out. However, when I export as an .eps file (my preferred method of export), none of the icons are where I placed them. They are shifted so the center of my icon is lined up on the top right corner (I believe it was the top right) of where I had actually placed them on the map. Adjusting the offset doesn't fix the issue, it just adjusts where the icon gets laid out on the map, but the eps export still has the same issue. I emailed Derfel to see if he has any ideas why it is doing that, but I haven't heard back yet.
Hey Stratos,
Any ideas how to fix this? I am generating new icons directly in the vector package InkScape (I run linux), and the export to .eps has this same offset. The offset only appears in the exported .pdf, as the rasters are obviously fine.
I'm guessing that the usual eps format used in the base icons declares a reference coordinate system that is in the top right and this other standard declares (or does not or vice versa) it in the middle of the icon. So when HeroScribe draws our new stuff, we get the center landing in the top right of the box.
The EPS is just text, so a well placed text command in each file should fix it. Otherwise we just need someone who can create these files correctly to open our files in their tool and re-save to the compatible standard. Not exactly what I had in mind, but that *should* work too.
ideas?
Thanks.
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