[SLUG] A miniscule bit of progress with the graphic design spec

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:35:21AM BST, John Allsopp wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:02:56AM BST, John Allsopp wrote:
>> >> The logo's good though, so I've taken that and turned it into
>> this
>> >> <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/slug/logo.gif>, which seems OK
>> unless
>> >> y'all think otherwise.
>> >
>> > Not trying to steal your thunder, but had my first attempt with
>> > Inkscape
>> > which proved remarkably easy to convert your image to a .svg file.
>> > I've
>> > put a .png created from that here:
>> >
>> > http://al.sdf-eu.org/tmp/slug-logo1.png
>> >
>> > You can have the .svg file if you wish.
>>
>> That looks distorted, elongated in the vertical plane, to me. Also,
>> on
>> the logo I was suggesting I'd added a single line of grey pixels to
>> give a retro shadow look, which isn't there in the Inkscape one.
>> Also
>> I didn't use black, since the logo on the website is grey, I used, I
>> think, 51, 51, 51.
>>
>> But, Al, I tried to install Inkscape (for about ten minutes) and
>> couldn't quite be bothered considering it's probably in this new
>> machine I haven't yet installed, so if you can get the distortion
>> sorted and provide it as a fairly big png, I can add that shadow
>> back
>> in really easily and get the grey sorted.
>
> Fair enough John.  It was only a quick attempt because the image you
> posted had really jagged steps on the curves.  I've posted another
> quick
> effort to the same URL, but again it needs more work to straighten out
> as I've introduced more steps myself which I'm unhappy with.
>
> I'm trying to get a whole host of things working at the moment, but
> will
> try again soon.

Not really. It just occurred to me (when Jamie said SVG) that I
reacted to the wrong part of what you did. I took it that you were
having a go at the logo, whereas what you were really doing was
suggesting a technology (SVG/Inkscape).

The only problem is, I don't really want to install it on this machine
because it has a set of dependencies which aren't fulfilled and I'm
changing to a new machine shortly. Maybe I'll overcome one or other of
those soon .. Steve's bringing Fedora around for the new machine.
Either that or I can put Inkscape on the XP machine. Sacrilege.

Oh, and there are various "what font is this?" AI type facilities
knocking around the Internet, I might try those to id the font.

J