Friday, 9 February 2018

symbology - SVG symbol colors differences in QGIS 2.12?


I don't understand why SVG symbols, which are colors changeable in the symbol default installation like this airplane:


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whereas there symbols like the transport bus station, and lighting symbol (that i have been created in inkscape 0.91) that don't have any option to change the fill colors and the outline?


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I have red Changing colours in SVG symbol using QGIS? and didn't got suitable answer.



Answer



You need to modify the content of the SVG file and an answer was given in GIS SE (How to create svg symbols that have modifiable fill color, stroke color and stroke width?) and in Add and personalise SVG symbols in QGIS (in French, Portail SIG)


Compare the "transport_bus_stop.svg" file where you can change the colors


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In the file, the contains many parameters fill, fill_opacity, ...




And the "transport_bus_station.svg" file where you cannot change the colors, none of them.



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Therefore if you add these tags (fill=,...) after each "" and before d=" in the file:




The result is a symbol where you can change the color, the stroke and...


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The new paths of the "transport_bus_station.svg" file








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