[oats-sig] mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....

I can't seem to open those files, are they gzipped as expected?

Steve

On 10/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....
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> congratulations on some really clean code samples.
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> two topics have been chunked:
> http://www.openicon.org/icon-ark/mulberry/fruit.svgz
> http://www.peepo.co.uk/icon-ark/vegetable.svgz
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> it would be helpful to have topic or category icons.
> our users have great difficulties with generalisation, and this is a great
> place to start...
> you may have other topic ideas.
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> http://www.openicon.org is a search engine not a host. (except during
> development)
> anyone can register links to topics, provided the files are valid.
> please try this out as well as the simple text search by irc or web
> search by picture is in development,
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> the rather crude agglomerator did not barf too heavily.
> the agglomerator converts folders of SVGs to a single svgz document.
> note that each icon now has a title, when you tab or mouseover each one a
> tooltip gives the name.
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> Please consider hosting files like the two above.
> then people can find you more easily and
> you can update and add at your convenience, and users will find out very
> quickly.
> please remember to register with openicon each time ~:"
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> users easily find other graphics like the one they found, which are
> downloaded once and cached.
> users will normally copy a link to your resource rather than the data.
> there is not much sense in copying around the net, as it makes updating more
> difficult....
> reduced traffic and smaller files being posted around the place, etc....
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> I can only slowly introduce the openicon as it evolves, please bear with me.
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> in the near future:
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> individuals with very limited vocabularies can register their personal
> category to help others communicate.
> these cannot be part of the general search directory as duplications would
> necessarily arise.
> however it may be possible to introduce people with similar interests and
> abilities, in real time....
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> kind regards
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> Jonathan Chetwynd
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> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
>  http://www.iconomy.org/
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> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
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> On 2 May 2008, at 19:36, Steve Lee wrote:
> On 01/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
> please could you or Garry? send me a few example SVGs before the batch run?
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> There is now a zip archive of the SVG symbols available on straight-streets.
> Login and go to the Checkout, it's at the bottom of the page.
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> Or just grab it directly:
> http://www.straight-street.ukfsn.org/uploaded/bundles/Mulberry1v4_svg.zip
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> Garry spent some time exporting and checking them this afternoon and
> as a result our conclusion is that they are *much* clearer than the
> WMF versions. That could be the rendering program but we guess it is
> largely down to the format. For me on gnome they look great as tiny
> file thumbnails (in Nautilus) or when viewed full screen.
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> To update my previous statement, hand correction is only needed when
> exporting to WMF.
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