Mikhail Kalenkov wrote: Hi!
> 2009/2/28 Pascal Georges <[email protected]>: >> >> 2009/2/28 Mikhail Kalenkov <[email protected]> >>> Pascal, are you planning to update photos2007.zip >>> package? >> No, an updated package is FIDE -2009. > > No, FIDE -2009 is not replacement for the photos2007.zip. > FIDE-2009 doesn't contain engine logos, historic players. > For instance Fischer, Robert James is in photos2007.zip > package (Photos_Dez_2007.spf file). Indeed, Mikhail is right. However, there is some overlap of course and for a user it's no problem if he has for a single player more than one photo (it's a bit tricky if you want to give photos from a specific file preceedence, however). Should one split photos2007.zip into parts? Like engines, historic, player-selection? Compared to FIDE it is quite small (all in all somw 350 images, 106 of them for engines), but it contains stuff that is not in FIDE. From this point of view splitting is probably overkill(?) Giving that small a size it could even work very well if the index is generated on the fly on startup, with no need to touch it? BTW 1: Currently we have no good collection of (free) historic photos, though historic contains some. There's also an inconsistency as Photos-Dez-2007 contains some historics as well. Cleanup would help here and surely there're some more images available. If someone is searching for a *non-programming project*, collecting such images, together with the rights for our project to use them, would be a valuable work. It is sufficient to collect images in some decent quality as jpg or png or whatever (well known format), I'd have the tools at hand to convert such photo collections automatically given a list of player name and the associated photo file. For this list I think I can handle almost any _common_ format, like some spreadsheet or whatever. (It would be nice to have columns like Surename, Christian name, photofile.) FIDE photos are usually at least 80x100 pixels in size, I've very good results from images of 200x280. Generally, larger is better than too small as scaling down works much better than scaling up. BTW 2: Just finished the upload of the new FIDE-2009-1.zip with a correct index. (Hope I didn't screw up anything, I found this sf-interface a bit confusing.) For those who already got the FIDE-2009.zip: it is enough to just delete the spi-file, Scid will then regenerate it. No real need to fetch all 43MB again. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
