Bug#778477: vim-common: vim.svg has non-square bounding box, appears distorted in GNOME Shell

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:18:57AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Here is the best procedure I've found, using the ghostscript and pdf2svg
> packages:

Thanks for the tip.  I'll definitely try this out.  I'm not very
familiar with these tools, so this is a big help.

> Converting EPS to PS seems to be the only way to fix the colour space
> (symptom of not doing that: the colours look muted). You can combine the
> other two steps into
> 
>     inkscape --export-plain-svg=tmp.svg tmp.ps
> 
> but inkscape is a fairly heavy build-dependency, so you might not want
> to do that,

Agreed.

> depending whether you use sbuild/pbuilder for the
> Architecture: all part of the build.

Well, vim-common is actually an Arch: any package.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>