Cataloguing & Converting Bluecurve Icons

[Máirín Duffy]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> I don't have access to Illustrator, so if someone else can convert the 
> .ai files to SVG i can help cleaning the results, breaking the icons in 
> individual files etc.

I can start converting them to SVG. The reason I haven't thus far - if you 
convert a whole ai sheet to SVG, it croaks when you try to open it in Inkscape - 
I don't think through any fault of Inkscape, I think just because Illustrator 
isn't real swift at exporting SVG. Sigh. I'm probably going to have to break the 
sheets into chunks to get this to work - If anybody else has Illustrator and is 
willing to help let me know and we can divy them up.

> Not only that, it should also support our specific file types.
> A gallery would be awesome, for a large number of icons search 
> functionality will become important. Also we may want some kind of 
> feedback (comments).
> 
> Unfortunately, the choice is very restricted: people in charge of the 
> website infrastructure have a policy - no php is allowed, python is the 
> preferred language, so the large majority of gallery software is out of 
> reach.

Yeh..... these limitations really suck. :-/

> At the Open Clip Art Library we have the plan of using CreativeCommon's 
> ccHost (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost), but we have to add SVG 
> support before it can be used for the job. I think such a tool would be 
> useful for Fedora Art, if not for icons at least for wallpapers.

Interesting, I will take a look!

~m