Re: More SVG Cards, Accessible Deck of Cards?

[David Bellot <david bellot gmail com>]

> Presumably that was after Gnome 2.10 because I think I installed the
> extras but I'm not seeing any other cards.
>  
As far as I know it was in gnome 2.8
Maybe it has been removed from the extras for 2.10 but I didn't know.

> With careful use of SVG clones or defs and using SVG text instead of
> converting to curves I imagine you could get a very small file even with
> using SVGZ.
>  
Yes, that's what I'm doing. Lots of <use> and <defs>.
But the main part of the file lies in the characters' paths, and this is 
what I'm working on.
Using SVGZ, I'm already under 300Kb !

> To go a little offtopic for moment, if you were to put together a set of
> template cards with blank image placeholders in the middle I can think of
> people making their own custom card sets.  Although someone recently
> pointed out Barbie Linux Distribution (serioulsly) I'm suprised no one has
> rebranded GPL software and sold it with custom artwork.  I mean you can
> get all kinds of board games branded with Star Wars, and I've seen branded
> flash games put together as high end advertising so I think it is almost
> an inevitability that someone will do the same with open source software
> and games are likely to be an early target.  I have been able to see it
> coming for a few years now, if only I had a business plan and franchising
> rights or a movie tie in.
>  
Actually, if I have time, I'll work on a gtk applications to design new 
cards deck. Currently, the only thing I have is a awk piece of code to 
generate my own deck.
It is full of parameters and can be tweaked to other decks... I guess so !

Best,
David