Bernhard Dippold, 14-01-2007 06:21:
Hello Caio, *
CC'ing the Art project, becuase this is one of the topics related to
both projects.
Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote:
Hi all,
first of all, congratulations for the visual design project.
It's a project run by Stella Schulze, the OOo design expert at Sun,
Hamburg. She proposed to give the community (especially UI and Art
project) access to her OOo related materials and started this as a
sub project (not yet finished) of UI, because UI developer able to
support her CVS efforts are working just one room away.
I'm extremely happy that she is sharing her work with us, so we avoid
working on the same design in different projects.
I would like to edit the banner, but I can't use Photoshop neither
I have enough money to buy it.
I'm not quite sure which banner you mean. This one?
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/gifs/visualdesign.png
Or the "Thank You" banners?
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/gifs/Images/OOoThankYou.png
The "Thank you" banners.
For the first you have to ask Stella directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the latter
can be found in the Art projects area of Issue Tracker:
http://ui.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71240
I think the .psd files there are the ones you are referring to. I've
been able to open them in GIMP keepin the layer information, so it is
not as hard to modify them. It is not a vector format, so scaling
will result in lower quality.
There is a link for the psd files in the page.
You can't modify the text either - you'll have to replace it with
your own.
That's the point.
But I assume the font used to be Frutiger (condensed?), the
commercial font used for the logo too. As this font is not available
for free, I don't know if you own it. Using Bitstream vera (bold)
instead, condensing it to abut 78% horizontally leads to quite
similar results (most obvious difference: better kerning, slimmer "o"
and rounded dots in Frutiger).
I weren't aware of this.
I also though the text was available as text, instead of images.
So I would like to see if it's possible to export the original do
SVG or some other format that might to be edited by someone without
Adobe Photoshop.
I don't know if a vector format would be the best, as I think
Photoshop is a raster based program (don't own it either).
Please try GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) if it serves well enough for
your purpose. If not, please come back (perhaps with even more
reaction in the Art project).
It's raster based, but support paths.
On the other hand: Jörg Jahnke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been very fast in
presenting translated versions of the banner. So you might consider
asking in the issue for help.
I think the bitstream vera tip does the job.
I'll try it, thanks.
What's the license of the banner?
I meant, it says the original is for translations but, can someone
change its color or add an image, for use in a native-lang project?
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