CadSoft watermark on SVG files

[Machine]

Watermark on SVG files made in Inkscape

Post by Machine » Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:00 pm
I made an image in Inkscape which I copied to disk as an SVG file. When I viewed the SVG using XnView, it had placed over it from XnView a watermark saying I should purchase Cad image.dll from Cadsoft.

I tracked the source of this on XnView to INFO, PLUG-INS INFORMATION and then a window comes up displaying CadSoft.

I have seen this on XnView for many years. When sending the SVG file to another editor, the watermark does not also go along with the file. It only appears when using XnView to view files.

I love XnView, it is a superb image file manager

[Squirrelly]

I also get this with XnView Classic 2.52.0 for SVG files both downloaded and created with Inkscape. And the quality of what it does render is really poor. Seems to render it at a very small size, then when you zoom in it just does a poor enlarging of the low res image that looks bad, rather than re-rendering it at the new size, which is supposed to be the point of SVG, you can scale it to any size with no loss of quality.

Also the rendering doesn't look to be entirely correct. Some elements are just shown as colored blocks rather than the correct details.

I looked on the add-ons page for a different one for SVG but only see the CadSoftTools one. Might there be a better opensource one that can work with or be adapted to XnView? I believe Inkscape is open source. Maybe the Inkview can be used as an xnview plugin.

[JiyaHana]

I see the same problem with SVG files in XnView. Is there a way to fix the quality or use a better plugin? Has anyone tried using Inkview or another open-source tool with XnView? Please share any tips.