Hi Werner: I have completed my logo efforts. To see how to create the logo please read examples/python/README.logo. The compressed svg result looks outstanding and is a fairly reasonable size (100K which will get substantially smaller if Hazen can figure out how to get rid of the graphical objects that are carried along in that file that are outside of the device limits). Additional prospects for reducing the size still further are discussed in README.logo.
Unfortunately, compressed svg results are not standard (they don't validate) and are therefore probably only recognized by Linux viewers/editors. Also, the uncompressed svg results are currently too large. So as a compromise until we can take the measures discussed in README.logo to reduce the svg file size to a reasonable value, I converted the result from svg to jpeg and stored it in www/img/plplot_logo.jpeg. As you can see for yourself, plplot_logo.jpeg has a slightly smaller (34K) filesize than the (42K) filesize of header.jpg file (the original logo-like image file created by you with methods which you haven't documented yet). plplot_logo.jpeg also has the same graphical quality as header.jpg, and in addition has a legend superimposed on the background plot. So plplot_logo.jpeg is obviously good enough for a logo now, but it frankly does not look as good as the equivalent *.svgz or *.svg results so the measures discussed in README.logo to reduce the *.svg file size to a reasonable size without compromising its graphical quality are worth implementing. My next step is to finish the liquid layout style for our website. Some like the liquid layout style which tends to be recommended by CSS enthusiasts but others prefer a fixed style like we presently have. Therefore, do you know how to change our website so users can easily choose either the fixed or liquid layout CSS style using their browser menu choice for CSS style? For example, under firefox if you follow view==>page style there is currently a menu for two page styles (none and basic) for plplot.sf.net, and I would like to expand that user choice to none, basic (the current fixed style), and the liquid style. Do you know what php changes have to be done to set up that choice assuming the current fixed style file, css/style.css, will continue to have the same name, and the liquid style file will be called css/liquid_layout_style.css? Thanks in advance for any help you can give on setting up CSS alternatives for the user. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
