On Wednesday 29 September 2010 01:45:54 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:07:10 +1000 > > "Owen" <rcook at pcug.org.au> dijo: > >> I am starting to work on a presentation I will be giving on Scribus. > >> For some of the slides I want to use the logos here: > >> > >> http://www.google.com/search?q=scribus+logo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=o > >> rg.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a > >> > >> 1) I assume it legal for me to use these logos in my presentation, > >> but if I need permission from someone, please advise. > >> > >> 2) I was able to download the main logo (the round one) as a vector > >> PNG > >> file, but the rectangular ones appear to be available only as low-res > >> bitmaps, which won't look very good when displayed several meters > >> wide on a movie size screen. Are the rectangular ones available > >> somewhere as > >> vector images as well, or at least in high resolution? > > > >Perhaps this is what you want? > > > >http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Desktop_Icons > > Thanks for the response. > > Yes, those are the same images as on the same link as above. But > they're all raster images; I was looking for a vector image so I > wouldn't have to worry about the resolution when the slides are > projected on the big screen. I did find a place at: > > http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ > > Where there is a bitmap-to-vector converter. I used it and it appears > to have done a decent job, although the vector result has a lot of > banding in the gradients. I also found that Inkscape can save it as a > bitmap with higher resolution. I'll try them both out later when I have > access to a projector and screen.
You can also use the vector drawings on this page: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Promotion_material > In the meantime I still need to figure out if I'll be infringing on > copyrights by using them in my slide show. The presentation will be to a > group of Linux users and there will be no charge. And I'll make the > presentation available as free, open source work. Also, I note that > none of the images have a (c) notice on them. The content of the wiki is licensed under CC BY-SA: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ (unless noted otherwise). > > I also want to figure out what the white text is in the above images - > the white text that says "Scribus" with a thin black border. I can > easily reproduce it as vector art if I can figure out what font it is. > I can probably find the font if I spend a lot of time searching and > comparing, but if someone knows what font it is it will save me a lot > of time. The old splash screen uses Bitstream Vera Serif, the current one Bitstream Vera Sans. HTH Christoph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100929/bf762519/attachment.htm>
