

Colours are the deeds of light; its deeds and sufferings: thus considered we may expect from them some explanation respecting light itself.
DESCRIPTION
The gimpsvg utility converts gradient files from the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, to the SVG (scalar vector graphics) format.
The program will read from stdin
if a file is not specified as
the final argument, and write to stdout
if the --output
option is not specified.
OPTIONS
--backtrace-file
path
-
Specify a file to which to write a formatted backtrace. The file will only be created if there is a backtrace created, typically when an error occurs.
--backtrace-format
format
-
Specify the
format
of the backtrace written to the files specified by--backtrace-file
, one ofplain
,xml
orjson
. --comments-read
path
-
Read the comments from the specified
path
and add them to the output gradient.The format is custom XML which should be fairly easy to generate, see the output of
--comments-write
for examples. --comments-generate
-
Create a comment with summary data (the date of creation, name and version of the cptutils package) in the output file.
-g
,--geometry
width
xheight
-
Specify the size of the SVG preview in pixels.
-h
,--help
-
Brief help.
-o
,--output
path
-
Write the output to
path
, rather thanstdout
. -p
,--preview
-
Include a preview in the SVG output. See also the
--geometry
option. -s
,--samples
number
-
Specify the maximum
number
of samples. GIMP gradients allow for complex curves in a number of colour-space coordinate systems. In order that these can be converted into SVG's simple RGB linear splines we must sample these complex curves quite densely. The--samples
option specifies (roughly) the maximum number of samples. In the case that the GIMP gradient is an RGB linear spline gradient the option has no effect, since we can then convert the segments without loss. -v
,--verbose
-
Verbose operation.
-V
,--version
-
Version information.