On 10/6/12, Graham Lauder <y...@apache.org> wrote: >> Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> > I upload the OpenOffice SVG logo on pure SVG, still needs some cleanup >> > on the nodes, but this is a 100% SVG logo. >> > The attachment is on the cWiki: >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/ApacheO >> > penOfficeTM.svg & >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpageattachments.action?page >> > Id=27834483&sortBy=date& >> >> The orb is really nice here, a flawless vectorization of what we have. >> >> The text appears a bit distorted, or maybe it's just my on-screen >> rendering: for example, the "O" seems a bit wider and the "e" seems to >> be cut on the right, at least comparing the last image at >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27834483 >> with your version. > > You're right, that vector needs a little titivating > >> >> Font was discussed in this thread >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/11468 >> and it looks like the discussion settled on Verdana despite some >> comments about it being non-free; anyway it is a very common font, so it >> might be possible to get it perfectly rendered to SVG too. > > That's not difficult, all fonts are vectors in any case and fontforge will > export svg. > > I would definitely raise a -1 to using any proprietary fonts, especially one
Here is a comparison between Bitstream, Nimbus and Liberation. http://imagebin.org/231102 Bitstream also was modified by reducing the width by 15%. > > that is owned by our No1 competitor. There are plenty of good Free fonts > about: Bitstream Vera, DejaVu and Liberation are probably the most mature > familys and Luxi and Nimbus are good fonts as well and available on most > Distros. > > > However there is actually no need to use a given font in any case, the text > > can easily be created in Inkscape so that it is made up of letters that are > > unique to the OpenOffice Logo. It is completely unnecessary to use a > prepackaged font. > > This is a very rough freehand demonstration of the concept knocked up in > five > minutes using Inkscape > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:AOOLogoDemo.svg > > This is not a particular font family and so there are no licensing issues. > > > Cheers > GL > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
