[projectaon] LW refresh - including illustrations!
- From: Thomas Wolmer <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:57:24 +0100
Happy New Year everyone (who follows a calendar where this is relevant)!
The work on the refresh of the early LW books is slowly progressing -
I have been working mostly on automating as much as possible of the
DTD/XSL update induced changes that need to be made, and on looking at
the rather large pile of issues that's been reported. Before I attack
the latter (and post per-book lists) I'll await judgment on those
capitalization issues I have posted though, since most of the
(potential) issues belong to that category.
Slightly hotter news is that Paul Haskell, who helped out with some
illustration processing for the Action Chart Pack, has offered to
rescan and process Gary Chalk's illustrations from the first eight LW
books. Looking at what he's achieved with the 01fftd illustrations, it
is indeed possible to squeeze out quite some better quality even if
you don't have access to copies of the originals (which is our case
with Brian Williams's illustrations). You can view the large and small
illustrations here:
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/thomas/01fftd_ill/
The improvements come at the cost of larger file sizes (many thin
black lines are harder to compress than a grey blur); the files are on
average about 1/3 larger, but I think we can live with that?
One illustration that is not included is the map, since Paul only has
access to US editions with b/w maps. Is there anyone with colour map
editions, a high tech scanner and good photoshop skills who'd like to
try to improve those?
Another illustration improvement is the clickable RNT Ingo made:
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/ingo/imagemap/random.html
I haven't figured out how to do this in the XML/XSL though. Jon, you
had some idea...?
Finally, there's this idea about different illustration handling that
was discussed in this thread:
//www.freelists.org/archives/projectaon/08-2005/msg00053.html
I'll work some more on that one...
--
Thomas
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