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<petaflot>
hello! I'm having this issue importing an element from an SVG file.. I've done it before, I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong and there are no messages in the console: `linear_extrude(1) import("KLI.svg", id="K");`; both files reside in the same directory (I've tried using an absolute path, to no avail), and I have version 2024.05.02
<petaflot>
ok I got it.. I had omitted to transform the single letter 'K' into a path
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<teepee>
petaflot: yes, text is not supported yet, I started adding some time ago, but it's far from finished
<teepee>
that said, if you have dedicated text, why use SVG instead of the font directly?
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<petaflot>
teepee because of scaling... in the end I added a square frame because it didn't look so great (it's an intersection of 3 letters arranged on 3 faces of a cube)
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<J24k36>
petaflot textmetrics and offset / resize should give you all you need to make that look nice
<petaflot>
J24k36: this is what I ended up doing before adding the frame and not scaling anything. working with SVGs has the advantage of simplicity for some things..
<JordanBrown>
teepee That limitations section doesn't cover lines that do not form closed polygons, and does not cover overlapping polygons. I don't know the exact limitations, or I'd write something.
<JordanBrown>
Colors too.
<JordanBrown>
(Though we could in theory import SVG not as a single node, but as a tree in its own right.)
<JordanBrown>
Not that importing it as a tree would let you do anything other than set up Z-fighting :-)
<petaflot>
teepee: I'm too tired I can't even read anymore. apologies
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<teepee>
petaflot: no worries, if you have better wording, feel free to share that :)
<teepee>
and "Especially all animation features and most visual properties in the SVG file are ignored" covers colors in my view, it does not get much more visual
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<guso78k>
I just read about search function ... still this code does not yield any error. is something useful happening behind the scenes ?