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diff --git a/images/notes.txt b/images/notes.txt index c58eafc3..2d4e0a9a 100644 --- a/images/notes.txt +++ b/images/notes.txt @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ $Id$ -Notes about icons here (not for distribution). -============================================== +Notes about how I made the icons and logos here (not for distribution). +======================================================================== + David Aspinall <da@dcs.ed.ac.uk> -Icons to fit on the (default size) Emacs toolbars are 32x32. -The ones with pictures were made at 256x256, then shrunk -to have text added. +ICONS +===== + +Made with the Gimp. + +Icons to fit on the (default size) Emacs toolbars are 32x32. The ones +with pictures were made at 256x256, then shrunk to have text added. Background grey is V74. Red for buttons is 135,13,13. @@ -20,9 +25,10 @@ Text is lucidafax at point size 8. blank.xcf -- blank with correct background colour. ---- +LOGOS +===== -Proof general Text logo: +Original text logo: script fu -> logos -> comic book @@ -33,15 +39,58 @@ script fu -> logos -> comic book Then I filled background with web page colour, and shaded portion with green colour. + +New text logo: same font, but made in blender file. ----- -Proof general logo: +Proof general logos +=================== + +Web page: scene with canvas backdrop. Render in blender at full size, +then use gimp to scale to web size (250pix wide). This gives much +nicer result than low-resolution render: textures are smoothed out +more prettily. -Saved as eps for texi documentation. +EPS (doc/ProofGeneral.eps): For texi documentation. Used another, +wider image with alpha channel to (attempt to) leave background white +on printed page. Post processing with gimp to add fuzzy border and +white background since eps (gimp?) can't handle alpha channel. + + Width 5.00 " + Height 7.87 (wrong, obviously: 3.48 is right by scaling) + + But: this is *page* size! The image size itself + was square, I think. + Size of tiff image is 904x903. - Width 3.00 " - Height 7.87 (keep aspect ration checked, height not edited though) X-offset 2.8 " Y-offset 1.0 " Rotation: 0 + +Actually, Y-offset seems to have no effect on page position: what +happens is that tex compensates for the offset when it inserts the +image! Changing the offset and retexing puts the image back where TeX +wants it. Probably same true for X offset. + +Solving the size problem: original .eps is 8.4M. (Original xcf file +is missing/not saved). + +Test procedure: + + 1. render at 239dpi (original file seems to have 1200x1200 image in + it, this is closest I can get, makes 1199x1199 image). + 2. save as pnm (gives 4.1M file) + 3. Run pnmtoeps with -rle argument to get run length encoding. (4.1M) + 4. gzip -9 -> gives 1.6M file. + +Just using gzip directly gives 1.6M file anyway. +tiff is 1.5M. png is 1.2M. bz2 is 1.3M. + +Okay, so we'll distribute the original .eps file, gzipped. +(It gets zipped inside the tar file anyway, of course, but +leaving it zipped is less polluting). + +Badges +====== + +These were cut out from a close-up view of Proof General's chest. |