Having acquired a new server and reimplemented Jeremy’s web site, I ma starting on a rebuild of my own site, known to you as http://www.alleged.org.uk/pdc/. My aim with this to replace the lash-up of TclHTML, Python, Genshi and Kid with a nice, modern, Django site that (I hope) will not be obsolete for a good few years. The current prototype is at http://next.alleged.org.uk/pdc/. Read more
The SVG files generated by Lineform have a viewBox attribute and
no width and height attributes on the outermost svg element. This
is good because it means that is necessary to get Webkit browsers (at
least) to treat them as scalable (apparently the S in SVG was not enough
of a hint). Alas! the svg2png utility I want to use to downgrade SVG
files to PNG requires width and height attributes or it assumes
nonsensical values. Here’s my silly recipe for achieving this without
having two copies of every SVG file.
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