On Friday 12 March 2010 10:52:27 Marco "AlpVonKri" Flores wrote:
Ooooh, I see, what do you use?
Like I said, I'm not good at drawing, only at using the tools, and the only ones I've ever used are GIMP, Illustrator, & Photoshop, and I'm only more familiarized with GIMP, (open source rules, lol), but if in correct, GIMP it's able to save in formats of other editors, so probably something may work. ^_^
It is much more preferable to use vectorised images, hence using Inkscape and
the SVG format. The biggest advantage is that you can easily work on
individual objects in the image (change colours or gradients, remove that bit,
add another one), scale without any loss of quality, and externalise bits of
text as they are actually stored as plain text in the SVG file (which is an
XML based format).
The SVG images can then either be rendered directly by browsers that support
SVG (though that's mostly only recent Firefox versions, definitely not IE),
rendered from scripts (using the CLI tool rsvg-convert from the package rsvg-
view), or exported as bitmap image files directly from Inkscape. They can also
be converted to other vector formats used by publishing tools such as LaTeX
(EPS, PDF).
Now, of course, if the original file is in a bitmap format (PNG, JPEG, ...),
you can't do much about it (I didn't check in this case, just a general
remark). There are a few tools that try to do their best at vectorising bitmap
images (such as autotrace) but the result isn't always that great, it highly
depends on the original bitmap image.
But we do have SVG versions of the openSUSE logo and of Geeko:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=69353
http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/trees/master/00assets/logo
http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/trees/master/00assets/poster
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser