Articles tagged #svg
From Inkscape to poppler
What’s next? Well… poppler is the library Inkscape uses to import PDFs.
Yes, the name comes from Futurama.
Turns out, poppler comes with a bunch of CLI tools, including pdftocairo!
Halfway through this article, I realized the “regular weight” on my system was in fact Iosevka SS01 (Andale Mono Style) (see Releases), but the “bold weight” was the default Iosevka.
Truly headless draw.io exports
I love diagrams. I love them so much!
In fact, I have fairly poor visualization skills, so making a diagram is extremely helpful to me: I’ll have some vague idea of how different things are connected, and then I’ll make a diagram, and suddenly there’s a tangible thing I can look at and talk about.
Of course the diagram only represents a fraction of what I had in mind in the first place, but that’s okay: the point is to be able to talk about some aspect of a concept, and so I have to make choices about what to include in the diagram. And maybe make several diagrams.
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