Re: Yet Another Poster

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> Luis Villa wrote:
>
> > On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one.
> > > It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently
> > > three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf
> > > soon, not sure how though. Scribus svg support is not satisfying 
> > > enough yet.
> > > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/poster-language.png
> > > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/poster-language.svg
> > >   
> >
> >
> > If we want to change the texts, how best to do that?
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > P.S. Has anyone given any thought to how to i18n-ize these? Danilo, is
> > it possible to i18n-ize svg? :)
> >  
> SVG is an XML file and I believe that intl-tools should be able to 
> work with them in either of two ways:
> 1. Use xmlpo/poxml to extract the text, localise, then put back.
> 2. Put placeholders in the SVG file for the content to be localised 
> and a preprocessor would generate a .po file from the
>
> poster-language.svg.in file. Requires putting manually those 
> placeholders for each version of .svg file.
>
> Of course, the final work goes to the person actually doing this. :) 
> Danilo?
>
>
> In addition, Inkscape can be invoked from the command-line to do 
> simple processing such as exporting to PNG.
> This would help tremendously, as the generation of logos/posters can 
> be fully automated.
> See the command-line parameters: 
> http://www.inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html
> For example,
>
> $ inkscape poster-language.svg --export-png=poster-language.png -w990 
> -h1265
>
> It's crying to be automated.
>
> I had a look at
>
> http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/poster-language.png
> The resolution is not high so I can only guess that sodipodi does not 
> deal correctly with complex scripts.
> For example, notice the word after Swedish (Svenska); there is an 
> "accent" on its own that did not combine with the rest of the glyphs. 
> If you can pinpoint those misplaced accents, you can pass as an expert 
> in complex scripts :).
> I re-exported the same SVG file with Inkscape 0.42 and it appears to 
> works better:
> http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~simos/misc/posterlanguage-inkscape.png
>
> All in all, the tools work and work well.
>
> Simos

I used Inkscape 0.42 aswell, wierd, well, whatever.
- Andreas