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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Dec 25, 2022 05:19 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 02:53 PM:

You completely missed his point.

Which was what?

And your "darker" borders are also blockier and jagged.

If you don't like them, don't use them. They will be an option for those who prefer them.

You went through all this trouble to use vector graphics and then you hack it so that it looks crappy like the original.

In case you haven't noticed, the default behavior is to use a fully transparent background color, and this gives nearly identical results to rsvg-convert.

And I don't agree with H.G.'s suggestion to change the stroke width either.

I have ignored this suggestion, because I imagine it would distort the images and not achieve the effect I want.

I have worked very, very hard on these graphics and I'd appreciate them not being messed up.

I'm not messing up your graphics. I'm providing the option of displaying them with borders that are a little more boldface.

You now have all tools in place to fix the real issue. I don't understand why you not only won't do it, you will not even respond when we mention it.

I already tried rsvg-convert, then determined that I could get comparable results with Imagick.

Your desire for darker boarders is because of YOUR SETTINGS.

It's not darker borders, per se. It is for more solid borders that do not blend as much with the background, and this blending is more prominent in Interactive Diagrams that use the AlfaeriePNG set, which has nothing to do with my settings.

You want to compensate for this, but you are making the graphics look worse for other people.

I'm providing an option, and it is up to people whether they choose to use it.

You are zooming in and so the image loses clarity. The point of vector graphics like SVG is that you can zoom forever without loss. If you want to render PNG, then you have a limited resolution.

The Diagram Designer was designed using the GD library, which has no support for SVG. The solution to making SVG images work with it is to import than as PNG images.

But if you generate a higher resolution then some zooming can be performed without loss. Render your image at double size and then use the height and width of the IMG tag to scale it back down.

The Diagram Designer creates a single graphic image. It does not use tables or CSS to place image files on top of another image. So, there is no way to use height and width of IMG tags to adjust the size of SVG piece images in the diagram it produces.


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