[oats-sig] SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language Based and Semantic Information

i should say, that we've already got bliss to put the png symbol set
online... this is based on the winbliss library of ~3500 symbols. My
asp.netprototypes refer to the images on their servers - so you can
look at urls
for symbols and at the same time you can update the ccf mappings.

On 07/09/2007, Andy Judson <andy.judson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SVG authoring is definitely a head bender....
>
> I'll have a nosy at chalk etc as i'm keen to get working on this side of
> things. As i said earlier i'm involved in the bliss now and we're trying to
> get them to go do a easily accessible freely available download set of
> symbols. I'm using the bliss to do ccf stuff [3] and i've wrote a simple app
> that batch converts all the bliss png into svg - this does not just embed
> the image as would happen if you use adobe, the only problem with it at them
> moment is the results are slightly more artistic than bci would approve
> of... i'll try to digg out some examples. I use an oss library [1] to do the
> work. Widget are also doing a similar exercise for bliss (they've used
> source from [2]) we're trying to see the results and confrim what is going
> to happen with the results interms of open source.
>
> [1] http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://www.blackdirt.com/graphics/svg/
> [3] http://dewey.computing.dundee.ac.uk/andy/?q=node/46
>
> On 07/09/2007, "~:'' ありがとうございました。" < j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > authoring is a complex subject...
> > Why are there no easy to use authoring tools?
> > There W3C specifications are a significant hurdle, as are the
> > implementations:
> >
> > did you read or listen to my recent talk to CETIS Accessibility SIG?
> > "Putting the User at the heart of the W3C process"
> > http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Putting_the_User_at_the_Heart_of_the_W3C_Process
> >
> >
> > I conceived and planned the authoring tool "Chalk"
> > http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2/authoringTool.html
> >
> > Everything on peepo is hand-coded
> > I'm currently developing a new Web 1.9999 portal ie with live SVG
> > graphics for news, weather etc.
> > However this has been voluntary since 1994.....
> >
> > best wishes
> >
> > Jonathan Chetwynd
> > Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
> >
> > Publishers that might be interested in such projects include:
> >
> > widgit symbols are authored in SVG possibly using Adobe Illustrator.
> > However they are distributed in other formats, the Met office also
> > uses this process for copyright reasons.
> > http://www.widgit.com/products/inprint/index.htm
> >
> > also Clicker:
> > http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/clicker/
> >
> > inkscape is a complicated tool that produces verbose code
> > I have filed enhancement requests without result as yet ~:"
> >
> > it's essential the code is simple and easy to read, and thus edit.
> > though sometimes I do lose sight of this for particular reasons.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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