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Inkscape Icon Export Script for Mobile Apps
export_icons
Japanese
Introduction
export_icons is an icon export tool using Inkscape
for mobile applications(Android/iOS).
Execute
export_icons -i Icons.svg -o output
and the several sizes of icon are created like following:
output/Android/drawable-mdpi/ic_launcher.png
output/Android/drawable-hdpi/ic_launcher.png
output/Android/drawable-xhdpi/ic_launcher.png
:
output/iOS/Icons.png
output/iOS/[email protected]
:
Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.8 or later
- Inkscape 0.48.2 or later
- XQuartz 2.7.4 or later
- Your excellent icon svg files :)
You can also use this tool from Docker.
Supported files
Input
SVG file created by Inkscape(*.svg).
Recommended page size is 1024x1024px.
Output
for Android
Following files will be generated.
-
drawable-ldpi/ic_launcher.png(36x36px) -
drawable-mdpi/ic_launcher.png(48x48px) -
drawable-hdpi/ic_launcher.png(72x72px) -
drawable-xdpi/ic_launcher.png(96x96px) -
drawable-xxdpi/ic_launcher.png(144x144px) -
drawable-xxxdpi/ic_launcher.png(192x192px) -
ic_launcher-web.png(512x512px)
for iOS
Following files will be generated.
-
[email protected](40x40) -
[email protected](60x60) -
02a-iPhone-Spotlight-Settings-29.png(29x29) -
[email protected](58x58) -
[email protected](87x87) -
[email protected](80x80) -
[email protected](120x120) -
04a-iPhone-App-57.png(57x57) -
[email protected](114x114) -
[email protected](120x120) -
[email protected](180x180) -
06a-iPad-Notifications-20.png(20x20) -
[email protected](40x40) -
07a-iPad-Settings-29.png(29x29) -
[email protected](58x58) -
08a-iPad-Spotlight-40.png(40x40) -
[email protected](80x80) -
09a-iPad-Spotlight-50.png(50x50) -
[email protected](100x100) -
10a-iPad-App-72.png(72x72) -
[email protected](144x144) -
11a-iPad-App-76.png(76x76) -
[email protected](152x152) -
[email protected](167x167) -
13a-iOS-Marketing-1024.png(1024x1024)
Install
You don't have to add ./ in front of the export_icons command when you install it with following methods.
Homebrew
$ brew tap ksoichiro/export_icons
$ brew install export_icons
Maunal
Just put the export_icons file to the directory like /usr/local/bin.
Or create symbolic link like this:
ln -s /path/to/this/dir/export_icons /usr/local/bin/export_icons
Usage
export_icons -i INPUT_FILE -o OUTPUT_DIR [-f] [-t OS_TYPE] [-b BASE_NAME] [-s BASE_SIZE] [-v] [-p PATH_TO_INKSCAPE]
-i INPUT_FILE
Input Inkscape file.
Required.
-o OUTPUT_DIR
Directory to locate output files.
Required.
This directory will be automatically created.
-f
Optional.
If set, overwrite existing output directories(OUTPUT_DIR/Android, OUTPUT_DIR/iOS).
Otherwise, skip if there are any existing output directories.
-t OS_TYPE
Specifies target mobile OS. Optional.
Valid values are Android, iOS and All.
Default is All.
-b BASE_NAME
This is only available for Android. If set, change the base name of the output files.
export_icons -i ic_my_icon -o out -t Android -b ic_my_icon
Result:
out/Android/res/drawable-ldpi/ic_my_icon.png
out/Android/res/drawable-mdpi/ic_my_icon.png
out/Android/res/drawable-hdpi/ic_my_icon.png
out/Android/res/drawable-xhdpi/ic_my_icon.png
out/Android/res/drawable-xxhdpi/ic_my_icon.png
-s BASE_SIZE
This is only available for Android.
If set, change the mdpi pixel size.
export_icons -i ic_my_icon -o out -t Android -b ic_my_icon -s 32
Result:
out/Android/res/drawable-ldpi/ic_my_icon.png -> 24px
out/Android/res/drawable-mdpi/ic_my_icon.png -> 32px
out/Android/res/drawable-hdpi/ic_my_icon.png -> 48px
out/Android/res/drawable-xhdpi/ic_my_icon.png -> 64px
out/Android/res/drawable-xxhdpi/ic_my_icon.png -> 96px
-v
Enable verbose output.
Usage for Docker
If you have export_icons and icon.svg in current directory,
then this will generate icons to out directory:
docker run -t -i -v `pwd`:/workspace -w /workspace ksoichiro/inkscape ./export_icons -i icon.svg -o out -f -v -p /usr/bin/inkscape
License
Copyright © 2013 Soichiro Kashima.
Licensed under MIT License.
See the bundled LICENSE file for details.
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