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

Steve,

Steve,

sorry my misunderstanding...

$  cat vegetable.svg | gzip > vegetable.svgz
wfm

but gunzip seems somewhat stalled, will check.
in meantime please use a browser or UA...

regards

~:"

Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
http://www.openicon.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764

On 12 May 2008, at 18:44, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:

> Steve,
>
> http://www.peepo.co.uk/icon-ark/vegetable.svgz
> wfm, please check...
>
> so for instance in this case a category icon for 'vegetables' would  
> both be helpful to
> people searching, as it indicates the style of icon, and
> would help people who have difficulty with generalisations...
>
> if anyone has problems understanding the arguments outlined below,
> please let me know...
>
> http://www.openicon.org/icon-ark/mulberry/fruit.svgz
> The openicon domain is currently offline, should be available soon...
>
> cheers
>
> ~:"
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/
>
> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>
>
> On 12 May 2008, at 18:30, Steve Lee wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....
>>>
>>> congratulations on some really clean code samples.
>>>
>>> two topics have been chunked:
>>> http://www.openicon.org/icon-ark/mulberry/fruit.svgz
>>> http://www.peepo.co.uk/icon-ark/vegetable.svgz
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 ~:"
>>>
>>> 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....
>>>
>>> I can only slowly introduce the openicon as it evolves, please  
>>> bear with me.
>>>
>>>
>>> in the near future:
>>>
>>> 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....
>>>
>>> kind regards
>>>
>>> ~:"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Chetwynd
>>>
>>> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
>>> http://www.iconomy.org/
>>>
>>> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Or just grab it directly:
>>> http://www.straight-street.ukfsn.org/uploaded/bundles/Mulberry1v4_svg.zip
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> To update my previous statement, hand correction is only needed when
>>> exporting to WMF.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Lee
>>> --
>>> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>>> web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>>> blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve Lee
>> --
>> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>> web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>> blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>>
>>
>>
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