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    Emulationstation splash.svg how is it created?

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      wicketewoks @fdr4prez
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      @fdr4prez

      Thank you, one goes to each raspberrypi but I would like to know what parameters should be touched or some guide that explains more things to get to this, because the guide that I read limited me to what they said and blurs the colors...

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        fdr4prez @wicketewoks
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        @wicketewoks

        Most online convertors drop all the colors, like you found.

        Inkscape and a few other sites simply embed the PNG into the SVG file as base64 data, so the ES software can't read it. I think this is the error that you were getting.

        The SVG needs to be vector data and not embedded PNG data.

        The link that @mitu used with the instructions to use Inkscape to import the PNG file (with colors) and create a SVG from it seemed to work OK for simple PNG images, but i couldn't get good results following those instructions for your PNG image.

        I stumbled upon this site and it converted it to vector data, and that is the test1 results, and I think that test1.svg is untouched by me.

        then I cleaned it up a little (mainly changing the word coloring) to get to test2 results. I forget if I used GIMP or Inkscape for that.

        Neither are perfect, but I think they are decent for the little time I spent on them.

        https://express.adobe.com/tools/convert-to-svg

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          fdr4prez
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          One note that others should be made aware of...

          If your ES splash.SVG is a large file (like the test1 and test2 samples), then the ES loading progress takes a much longer time than normal.

          If you are OK with that, then larger SVG files would be OK.

          If you want a speedy ES launching process, then use smaller SVG for the ES splash.

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            wicketewoks @fdr4prez
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            @fdr4prez

            Great thanks for the help, I'll get to it

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