Hi. I am trying to make icons for a theme for Rockbox. (For those unfamiliar with it, Rockbox is an Open Source firmware for mp3 players. See http://www.rockbox.org/)

The Icons in Rockbox only support one color transparency, so I need Inkscape to export the images without anti-aliasing the edges. Is this possible?

Thanks!

you can make it work under some conditions

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... liasing.3F

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I am already doing that. It works for straight lines, but nothing else.

I noticed in the link you posted, however, that it said "With the current renderer,..." Is there another renderer out there that will work?

Thanks again!

Chuck McKnight wrote:Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I am already doing that. It works for straight lines, but nothing else.

I suspect you also only want AA on transparent edges, not between edges of colour? The only way you're going to be able to do this is by fudging the image with a raster editor such as GIMP. A starting point would be to export the image at a very very high resolution, then scale it in GIMP without resampling to create pixelation - but as I suggested this will pixelate everything, not just transparent edges.

Chuck McKnight wrote:I noticed in the link you posted, however, that it said "With the current renderer,..." Is there another renderer out there that will work?

I wouldn't assume so.

Alright, I'll take a look at that and see what I can do. Thanks!

Batik for example supports rendering hints.

If it is just the edges you are concerned with, you can threshold the alpha in GIMP to get rid of all (or some) of the semitransparent pixels. I think that would do what you want. I have done the same thing to get GIFS for displaying online.

-Rob A>

ffaat wrote:If it is just the edges you are concerned with, you can threshold the alpha in GIMP to get rid of all (or some) of the semitransparent pixels. I think that would do what you want. I have done the same thing to get GIFS for displaying online.

-Rob A>

Ah, perfect! That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!