FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Haiku flyer for GSOC 2008

["Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 00:34 +0100, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> Jorge G. Mare wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:32 +0100, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> > > Jorge G. Mare wrote:
> > > > Howdy,
> > > > 
> > > > Last year we put out a Haiku flyer for the Google Summer of Code with 
> > > > the idea of introducing potential candidate students to both the GSoC 
> > > > program as well as to our project.
> > > > 
> > > > I updated this flyer for GSoC 2008, and put it up for download here:
> > > > 
> > > > http://haiku-os.org/files/2008-03-17_gsoc2008-haiku-flyer.pdf
> > > > 
> > > > Please, use the flyer to spread the word about the GSoC and Haiku 
> > > > among students that may be interested in applying for a student spot 
> > > > with our project.
> > > 
> > > Koki, the flyer is great! I already printed some to put up at the 
> > > University of Rostock. One question Koki: Is it possible to replace the 
> > > bitmap icons with SVG versions? I think the flyer would then look even 
> > > better when printed.
> > 
> > I modified the flyer to use vector icons. The resulting PDF is at the 
> > same URL as before, and looks good if you open it with Adobe PDF reader.
> 
> Thank you very much, Koki! Though if you use the ones I sent you, they have 
> some fixes in them. Icon-O-Matic exports all shapes right now, even the 
> ones that are not visible at the default scale. This results in the 
> unmodified SVG export to contain some extra, thicker outlines for some 
> icons which I had removed for the files I send you. (Guess I am going to 
> fix IOM too...)

I updated the PDF with the SVG icons that you sent me; however, the
evince PDF viewer still does not render them properly. Also, I have not
changed the OpenOffice Writer version of the flyer, as the icons that
you sent me are missing lines when rendered as PNGs from AI.

Cheers,

Koki