On 10/6/12, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/6/12, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >> > I upload the OpenOffice SVG logo on pure SVG, still needs some >> >> > cleanup >> >> > on the nodes, but this is a 100% SVG logo. >> >> > The attachment is on the cWiki: >> >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/Apac >> >> > heO penOfficeTM.svg & >> >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpageattachments.action?p >> >> > age Id=27834483&sortBy=date& >> >> >> >> The orb is really nice here, a flawless vectorization of what we have. >> >> >> >> The text appears a bit distorted, or maybe it's just my on-screen >> >> rendering: for example, the "O" seems a bit wider and the "e" seems to >> >> be cut on the right, at least comparing the last image at >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2783448 >> >> 3 with your version. >> > >> > You're right, that vector needs a little titivating >> > >> >> Font was discussed in this thread >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/11468 >> >> and it looks like the discussion settled on Verdana despite some >> >> comments about it being non-free; anyway it is a very common font, so >> >> it >> >> might be possible to get it perfectly rendered to SVG too. >> > >> > That's not difficult, all fonts are vectors in any case and fontforge >> > will export svg. >> > >> > I would definitely raise a -1 to using any proprietary fonts, >> > especially >> > one >> >> Here is a comparison between Bitstream, Nimbus and Liberation. >> >> http://imagebin.org/231102 >> >> Bitstream also was modified by reducing the width by 15%. > > That's right I remember doing that way back, the problem with that was/is > that > it made the font loo heavy in the wrong places. The most noticeable was in > > the O In the bitstream family, the arc and the stress in the O are the same > > width from top to bottom whereas in for instance Frutiger, the original OOo > > font, the widths of the arc (the top and bottom of the bowl) were half the > width of the stress (the sides). This had the effect that when the font was > > compressed, the arc remained lighter than the stress, or at least until you > > got to 50%. > > With all of the Bitstream fonts (DejaVu, and Liberation are just variations > on > the original Bitstream) compressing the font results in the character > looking > top heavy with a fat butt because the arcs are now wider than the > stresses.
Here is the Liberation font with some Condensed Bitstream on the Os. http://imagebin.org/231157 please comment. > > Of the three, I'd go with Nimbus. I like the the Liberation set, but for > some > reason they decided that the uppercase O wasn't wide enough??? Liberation > uses some of the design cues of Frutiger, noticeable on the bowls of the c > and > e. And I never liked the terminal on the bitstream f. it looks unfinished, > > like the designer couldn't figure out what to do with it. > > Those subtle variations could be fixed in inkscape of course and because > it's > an open font we could modify it without issue. > > Cheers > GL > > > >> >> > that is owned by our No1 competitor. There are plenty of good Free >> > fonts >> > about: Bitstream Vera, DejaVu and Liberation are probably the most >> > mature familys and Luxi and Nimbus are good fonts as well and available >> > on most Distros. >> > >> > >> > However there is actually no need to use a given font in any case, the >> > text >> > >> > can easily be created in Inkscape so that it is made up of letters that >> > are >> > >> > unique to the OpenOffice Logo. It is completely unnecessary to use a >> > prepackaged font. >> > >> > This is a very rough freehand demonstration of the concept knocked up >> > in >> > five >> > minutes using Inkscape >> > >> > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:AOOLogoDemo.svg >> > >> > This is not a particular font family and so there are no licensing >> > issues. >> > >> > >> > Cheers >> > GL > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
