Re: Sodipodi SVG flags 1.4

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus gnome org>]

Hi Alberto,
Glad you like the package. Actually people who have been making these
flags have used flags.net and flagspot.net as their main sources for
information on how to make most of these flags. Also as the release note
mention we have a perl script included in the package now that converts
the filenames from country name to country code.

Christian

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 16:06, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
> Hi.
> It is nice to see these kind of initiatives. They are really usefull for
> language specific software. As I am not a decent designer at all, all I
> can say is that www.flags.net have a lot of flags in non-vectorial
> format, but which have good quality and can be used to make SVG flags
> better.
> 
> It was interesting, also, to have a table mapping language codes (such
> as en_uk or en_us or pt_br or pt_pt) to the flag more appropriate. I
> have a small pack of flags (gif, mainly) wich I can use to help
> constructing this table, if there are more people interested.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alberto Simões
> 
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 15:57, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > Sodipodi SVG flags 1.4
> > 
> > This is the third release of the Sodipodi flag collection. This
> > collection currently consist of 275 different international and
> > local flags. The flags are donated by their authors into the public
> > domain.  The flags are in the scalable and free SVG format which today
> > is supported by most major vector graphics programs. Most flags are done
> > using the Sodipodi vector drawing application. In others words these are
> > free flags in a free format made with a free application.
> > 
> > The core collection of flags in this collection are meant to be as
> > accurate as possible.  If you discover flags in here that have wrong
> > proportions or wrong colors then please update the flag with the correct
> > colors or sizes and send it to us with an explanation.
> > 
> > New flags are of course also welcomed, but remember we need a clear
> > statement from you that you dedicate the flag to the public domain, 
> > preferably using the Creative Commons public domain dedication process
> > found here:
> > http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2
> > We do hope that many of you take some time to help us make this an even
> > more complete collection.
> > 
> > We hope that this collection can be useful to people in many different
> > settings be that in relation to software, publishing, education and so
> > on. 
> > 
> > This release also contains a perl script by Timur I. Bakeyev which will
> > rename the flags into files using the ISO country codes. You find the
> > script included in the flags tarball or zipfile. You can also find more
> > information about it on Timur's project page:
> > http://www.gnome.org.ru/flags/
> > 
> > The assembly of this huge collection has been made possible thanks to
> > the hard work of many people. We big thank you goes to all our
> > contributors listed in the CREDITS file distributed with this package.
> > 
> > We would like to especially thank Tobias Jakobs and Caleb Moore for the
> > multiple contributions to this latest release. Caleb Moore also fixed
> > librsvg to enable it or properly render all the flags and his fixes will
> > be in the next release of librsvg (which means Nautilus will render the
> > flags correctly).
> > 
> > You can see all of the currently contributed flags here:
> > http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags
> > 
> > The creation of these flags had not been possible without the hard work
> > that free software coders have put into great tools like Sodipodi and
> > librsvg. The projects have helped increase the viability of SVG in free
> > and open source software a lot.
> > 
> > Both these two tools and the new Inkscape project do need more coders in
> > order to improve further. People interested in working on these and
> > other issues are highly encouraged to join the project mailing-lists.
> > You find the projects here:
> > http://www.sodipodi.org
> > http://librsvg.sf.net
> > http://www.inkscape.org
> > 
> > 
> > You can download the package in either tar.gz or zip format from the
> > sourceforge file area:
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sodipodi/sodipodi-flags-1.4.tar.gz?download
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sodipodi/sodipodi-flags-1.4.zip?download
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Christian Schaller
> > 
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