Re: Business cards

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 13:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> I inkscape a bit... what do you mean by 'line up vertically'? Do you 
> want this?
> 
> 
>     [GNOME Foot]       GNOME
>     [GNOME Foot]       Foundation
>     [GNOME Foot]       Member
> 
> Or do you want the text right- and left-aligned?

Yes, I'd prefer both left and right edges to be aligned. It would be
nice too if the top and bottom lined up with the foot.

> To my eye, the text looks aligned. The problem is more letter shape - 
> the curved G and the slanted M *look* to be a few pixels to the right of 
> the straight edged F, but they are very close to spot-on to my eye. Or 
> is it the right edge that is causing you trouble?

When I open my new .svg in Inkscape (on FC3 and Ubuntu 5.04), the right
edges are wildly different and don't even fit on the canvas anymore.

When I open Jame's original, it's not so bad, but they really are not
aligned.

But if the format or application does not attempt to constrain them then
there's no way that they should be expected to line up, because fonts
are different everywhere.

> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> Murray Cumming a �it :
> > I tried to use Adobe Illustrator to make the text line up vertically,
> > but it's not much better in Illustrator.
> > 
> > Here's the Illustrator .ai of my attempt, with exports as .eps, .svg
> > and .png:
> > http://www.murrayc.com/temp/gnomemarketing/gnome_member_logo_murrayc/
> > 
> > Gimp renders the svg identically to Illustrator but Inkscape arranges
> > the text differently. Maybe Gimp is using the embedded font information.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:53 -0300, James Bowes wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>The example card seems to mention a company, but this should be a non-
> >>>>>>commercial card.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Would you like to change this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Done. I've just replaced the old one, so
> >>>>http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~bowes/business_cards/member_logo/card_with_logo.svg
> >>>>is where the new sample lives.
> >>>
> >>>Sorry, I don't see any difference.
> >>
> >>James emailed it to me:
> >>http://www.murrayc.com/temp/gnomemarketing/
> > 
> > 
> 
-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com