Re: svg cards 2.0 (pre1)

[Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:40 -0700, David Bellot wrote:
> Hi Gnome-games
> 
> I finished my SVG-cards 2.0 and it's ready for gnome-games. What I would 
> like, if gnome-games developpers are agree, is that this deck becomes 
> the standard deck for gnome-games. Download it at 
> http://david.bellot.free.fr/files/new_db.svg
> 
Well it can't be the default, our SVG rendering is still too slow to
make that practical. Some immediate comments based on playing with it
for a few minutes (some good, some bad):

 - The detailed work is really well done - although I have to play a
game like "cover" to see all the detail.
 - The white space around the edge of the cards seems a bit small.
 - With the face cards, the letter seems to cut off the cut in the
background. I suspect this is deliberate, but not to my taste.

On the rendering front: I'm not entirely sure what to do. For a resize
we could just rescale the pixmaps we have (this is quick) and then do
the hard rendering in the background so that the user faces fuzz for a
few seconds rather than a pause. This still doesn't help start-up time.
I don't think that librsvg is going to miraculously get faster either.

One final question: Is this meant to be an enhanced version of the set
we already have in gnome-games-extra-data or a new card set?

 - Callum




> Here are the change since SVG-cards 2.0 :
> - new design with bigger numbers especially for computer display,
> - new "real" Joker,
> - new back especially designed to look good with it has a small rendered 
> size,
> - new laurel around ace of clubs
> - extensive use of defs to reduce size,
> - smaller file size. SVG-cards 2.0 is 913Kb   (SVG-cards 1.1 was > 4.4Mb) !
> - faster loading time (aisleriot starts in 3 s on my Athlon 800Mhz 
> computer for the first time (no cache)).
> - resized form to adapt to Aisleriot geometry and requirements,
> - new file structure to access and extract each card separately (I will 
> provide javascript code later to do that as soon as I release the 
> 2.0final version).
> 
> Please comment and tell me if the size is sufficiently small or not and 
> the kind of improvements you'd like to see.
> Enjoy!
> 
> David
> 
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