You can ask for Lazy Consensus on this and give 72 hours for anyone to object.

I’m +1 for pure shapes and no text. Maybe comment inline each glyph.

Regards,
Dave

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> On Aug 30, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Pedro Lino <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I don't know what is the appropriate procedure but would like to request a 
> vote for the adoption of a corrected Apache OpenOffice logo vector file.
> 
> Most of you are aware that the current logo was created by Chris 
> Rottensteiner .
> 
> Unfortunately all of the logos in vector format archived in the Apache 
> OpenOffice (or at least all that I could find) left by ChrisR 
> (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branding/AOO4/ ) have the same 
> problem: the TM part is a text object.
> 
> This means that editing or viewing the SVG only looks as the author expected 
> (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branding/AOO4/Apache_OpenOffice_Logo_ChrisR_selected_2013-06_with_4.pdf)
>  it if the user's computer has font Source Sans Pro Light installed.
> 
> An easy way to see this is to click on the AOO logo at
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apache_OpenOffice_logo_and_wordmark_(2014).svg
> 
> After clicking on the expected logo as PNG you will open the actual SVG which 
> will be showing a wrong TM
> 
> Because of this small defect, there is no perfect SVG that can be used as 
> Apache OpenOffice's official logo, and that is the reason why the current 
> official logo available to Apache is a PDF
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/project-logos/originals/
> 
> Luckily user Matthias Seidel has fixed this by converting the TM part to 
> paths (as ChrisR did for the rest of the text)
> 
> This does NOT change the artwork in any way. It just guarantees that the 
> vector logo looks the same under any OS regardless of the fonts installed.
> 
> 
> TL:DR
> 
> Therefore I would like to propose a vote to approve file 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branding/AOO4/Apache_OpenOffice_Logo_unofficial_mseidel_fixed_TM.svg
> 
> as the Apache OpenOffice official vector logo file
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Pedro


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