[projectaon] Re: LW refresh - including illustrations!
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Project Aon <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:51:06 +0100
On Sunday 01 January 2006 21:57, Thomas Wolmer wrote:
> 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...?
I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be easier to simple use a simple
<table> for the RNT where all numbers are on an image with transparent
background (or two images with the two different backgrounds) of there
own. This way the RNT for the different books would be much easier to
create. Something (in HTML) like
<table>
<tr>
<td><a href="1.html"><img src="1grey.jpg" /></a></td>
<td><a href="5.html"><img src="5white.jpg" /></a></td>
<td><a href="7.html"><img src="7grey.jpg" /></a></td>
<td><a href="3.html"><img src="3white.jpg" /></a></td>
[...]
Alternatively, we could completely omit any images and simply write the
numbers as text.
Regards,
Ingo
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