SVG conversions?

Slight progress. I realised from reading Raik’s comments and then checking that I was still using NetSurf 3.8. So I’ve updated to 3.9. This does produce some changes. But no cigar.

With js on I can now see the SVGs. But with the graphs covered with the text. However I don’t get the ‘dropdown menus’. So can’t navigate using the browser. Instead I have to look at the page code, find the individual URLs, type them in, and then get the results page for a given set of headphones. With all the graphs overlaid with text making them unreadable. :-/

If I do a whole page save as an ‘application’ I can find the SVG files. But these also have the text obscuring the graphs.

The text in the examples I have seen is always in the form of individual characters NOT strings. So a PITA to try and remove, even if I save out as a drawfile.

So the result remains almost useless. :-/

Have a small lunch break…
Another “stupid” try with RPCEmu ;-)

Have used Phoenix with activ AcornSSL (the one from Collins FTPc 1.55b) and open https://headphonetestlab.co.uk/home-welcome …
Now I see the complete directory tree, click the interested device… site will open… scroll down… youn see the “picture frames” … copy the URL (CTRL + A; CTRL + C works)…
Insert to Netsurf (CTRL + U, CTRL + V)…

Browse was not working for me.

Sorry, but I’m a numpty so don’t really know what you did or where you got the software you used. ‘Phoenix’ don’t mean anything to me. Can you please give a step-by-step with URLs for items I’d need to get?

Pff, not easy for me. I hope I sort this right.
Browse is an old RISC OS Browser, Phoenix should be follow for newer hardware with a very rudimental Java Script support. I mean the project is closed.
Browse and Phoenix you find in the Netfetch package. Not sure, maybe there is a other place for download availabe. Packages? Store?

There’s an updated version of ImageView 0.02 alpha available here. The only changes are it’s built with VFP and a more recent version of ImageMagick. It fixes the problem of not displaying certain SVG files.

Also available here is a port of rsvg-convert command line utility. It can be used to convert SVG to PDF which can then be loaded into !PDF and exported as a Draw file.

Thanks, Chris.

Alas, that’s closer, but still not right somehow! I can get images, but with the TEXT AWOL. Instead I get a rectangle where each char might be, or no sign of text! Varies with the route by which I get the SVGs, but remains problematic. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

e.g. If I ‘view’ a page with !NetSurf it doesn’t show the graphics. But I can do a ‘full save’ that puts all the data fetched to build it into a runnable directory. I can then see SVG files there.

If I then use rsvg-convert I get:
*rsvg-convert willie.svg -f pdf -o out.pdf
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

(rsvg-convert:134802877): Pango-[1;33mWARNING[0m **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type=‘PangoRenderFc’, script=‘latin’

(rsvg-convert:134802877): Pango-[1;33mWARNING[0m **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type=‘PangoRenderFc’, script=‘common’
*

I do get a PDF. It has the lines of the graph, etc. But no text.

Similarly, ImageView shows the lines, but not the text. I guess my problem is the missing ‘config file’ but I don’t know what this is, or where.

BTW I’ve now had a chance to try Phoenix and that gives me similar problems as well as some navigation ones that differ from the ones with !NetSurf.

Similarly, ImageView shows the lines, but not the text. I guess my

The blank text is due to not having Fontconfig installed so no fonts are found. There’s a zip file here containing !UnixFC and !UnixFont. They both just need to be ‘seen’ before running ImageView and rsvg-convert.

Yes!! Excellent! :-) Many thanks, Chris.

I can now get decent pdf vector file – and then also DrawFiles – from the SVGs that adorn the HTL pages. Shame that it needs to be such a ‘round the houses’ route rather than it being a standard feature of a common RO browser, but a coconut nevertheless. :-)

One thing I noticed is that the PDF shows a shaded ‘backtext’ that is presumably to ‘watermark’ the results. But the DrawFile loses the transparencies so I get full-shade text which covers the view more. Presumably this is because when I used !Vector it and DrawFiles don’t ‘do’ transparency?

However !ArtWorks does show the transparencies if I drop the pdf onto it. Looks excellent complete with anti-aliasing, etc. :-))

Have try the latest Otter update from here.

Try to use “Sennheiser”…

First click to an diagram gives a “half sized” image…

Adjust click and open frame in a new window gives the correct view.