vectorize bitmaps
Diana Fong
dfong at redhat.com
Wed Aug 9 14:26:10 UTC 2006
Great work Nicu! Vectorizing the bitmap was definitely something that
might have been "gotten around to" later...but totally appreciate your
insight and initiative to do this. =)
A question...The portion that I used was the upper right side with only
a bit of the horizon...as shown in my png version of the icon. Is it a
lot of work for you to reconvert a cropped version that I send you or
should I just alter the vector version? By using more sky and a bit of
land, makes the picture a bit more interesting/dynamic...the whole
picture is a bit more 50/50 and so has a more heavy and less appealing
look...imo. =)
Thanks
Diana
Nicu Buculei wrote:
> This may be a crazy and worthless idea:
>
> I noticed the image-x-generic icon
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=image-x-genericL.png)
> contains an embedded bitmap
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=landscape.jpg).
>
>
> How about using a vectorized version of the bitmap?
>
> The downside is the SVG resulted after tracing loses a lot of details
> and have a large file size, but is much easier to work with it in a
> vector application.
>
> The bitmap after tracing:
> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/landscape_traced.svg
>
> The image-x-generic icon using the traced vector image instead of bitmap:
> - SVG: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/image-x-genericL_traced.svg
> (yes, is full vector)
> - PNG: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/image-x-genericL_traced.png
>
> note: I have no shadow and the outline is not quite the same, this can
> be corrected easily.
>
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