Commons:Graphics village pump/March 2017

Issue with an svg

Hello, I've been trying to make this work for sometime now, but to no avail. This is the image in question. When you click the image, it renders fine with the owl, but not when you tansclude or when you visit the File: page. Also, it works fine on my local machine. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance. --AVasanth (WMF) (talk) 19:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I've managed to fix it. Although the reason why that happened would still be good to know. Thanks--AVasanth (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

The owl bit inside was set to 0 opacity. Shyamal L. (talk) 07:17, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Thumbnails of striped areas appear black

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T20463

Is there a way to solve this problem?--Carnby (talk) 22:43, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

@Carnby: This is bug phab:T20463 compare: File:Pong.svg. I mean this bug is one with higher priority (non text related). (Menner) One workaround would be to use clones with clipping path. -- User: Perhelion 23:24, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@Perhelion: Thanks, but is there a way to make SVG valid?--Carnby (talk) 10:41, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh* good hint, my fault. -- User: Perhelion 12:49, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Perhelion: Thanks again! --Carnby (talk) 13:24, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Right or wrong?

I don't know whether the cyan colour cast of this image is acceptable since it is an old picture or not.

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Thanks in advance.--Carnby (talk) 17:27, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

It is a scan of a postcard, so it was printed that way. You try to restore the photograph by removing the label "Constanza. Praefektur." and storing the image as a black and white file. This is however the wrong place to discuss the issue. The correct place would be Commons:Graphic Lab/Photography workshop. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 04:49, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

I would just leave it like it is. I think it is preferable to not mess with old photos. Cheers. -- Klumsyk 3:33, 19 April 2017 (PST)

SVG text problem

Can anyone tell why the text in the older version of File:ERR route map 1938.svg didn’t render correctly? I took care to use fonts from the supported list (Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif) but everything ended up in a generic sans of quite different proportions and without bold or italic styles. I’d rather keep the text ‘live’ for compactness & editability; OTOH if I have to convert the type to graphics anyway, I’ll use fonts that I like better.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 01:16, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

There have been SVG font rendering problems for many years; see the history of File:Simple inverse relationship chart.svg or the past discussions at meta:Talk:SVG fonts... AnonMoos (talk) 15:55, 27 March 2017 (UTC)