Jacobs Weblog

24 Mar 2004

SVG world update

Today I found this article: ‘SVG and its Path into the Linux Desktop‘ on osnews.com . I is pretty exiting reading if you think SVG is cool.

At work I continued improving the layout on a DVD size cover for a danish production of OpenOffice.org which I have been working on for some time now.

I added the pen and paper on the front today. The art is taken from a really cool icon theme called Gartoon made by Zeus (realname Kuswanto). Take a look at Zeus’ homepage for a lot of great stuff. I will write him an email later to ask if it is okay to use this I sure hope so because I really looks good.

I still have a few idears to improve the cover: 1. Put shadow on the screenshots on the back of the cover. 2. Make a small white glow around the text beneath the pen and paper icon to make it easier to read.

UPDATE – I have now added a shadow to the screenshots (see picture above)

22 Mar 2004

Alternative to GIMP?

I also found this alternative to GIMP today named Pixel32… it looks alot like Photoshop and the screenshots are promising.

19 Mar 2004

OpenOffice.org logo

Today I looked into converting EPS to SVG because it seems that EPS is the only vector graphic format the OpenOffice.org logos can be found in… sad but true :’(

I found that the tool pstoedit can do the job so I tested it:

pstoedit -f plot-svg my.eps my.svg

The result was not to my satisfaction! At least Sodipodi and Inkscape can’t display the SVG result – I’ll find out when I get to try out Batik. If it’s a bad conversion (as I suspect) I’ll find a way to try if Adobe Illustrator is any better.

Another workaround was to remake the logo myself. It’s only the name and two gulls – come on give me a challenge. How about this: Buy the font used for the logo for 22$ WTF?!? (did I mention that the logo uses two different fonts?)

Hmmm it seems that I’m back at trying to convert the damn EPS.