On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 08:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I received some very nice mails off-list regarding to the thread
> "ubuntustudio icons". We went off-topic and talked about "screen tone"
> when using a computer and printer, since Moiré patterns are a serious
> issue.
>
> Does anybody know
I received some very nice mails off-list regarding to the thread
"ubuntustudio icons". We went off-topic and talked about "screen tone"
when using a computer and printer, since Moiré patterns are a serious
issue.
Does anybody know FLOSS software that is able to handle this?
Regards,
Ralf
FWIW, r
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Scott Lavender wrote,
>one thing i wouldn't want to do is make a install image that was 4GB for
>everyone to >download. therefore, i am concerned about incurring tonnes of new
>libraries for a >particular application. also, i would be cautious about
>trying to i
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 02:45 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> To see the effect of this yourself, take a look through the icons already
> installed on your computer: try scaling them to various sizes (including
> upscaling to e.g. 800x800 or so). I suspect you'll find that vector files
> (from SVG)
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 00:00 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> > `convert foo.png foo.svg`
>
> This is possible? For me it's important, since drawing an icon on a
> paper and than scanning it, is less work.
Yes, but doing it this way avoids all benefits associated with the
vec
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 17:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 00:00 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> > `convert foo.png foo.svg`
>
> This is possible? For me it's important, since drawing an icon on a
> paper and than scanning it, is less work.
>
> > > * a single .png file can creat
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 00:00 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> `convert foo.png foo.svg`
This is possible? For me it's important, since drawing an icon on a
paper and than scanning it, is less work.
> > * a single .png file can create multiple .png files during installation
> > (greatly reducing size
Scott Lavender wrote:
> * a .svg file can be smaller than a .bmp (this obviously reducing size
> requirements)
It can also be larger, depending on the number of vectors when compared
to the colour depth and icon size. A very small, low-color bitmap (e.g.
16x16 4-colour xpm) might be smaller
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 24, 2012 11:29 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 22:56 +0530, Shubham Mishra wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Len Ovens wrote
> >> >Can I do this from the command line? How?
> >> [snip]
> >> Exporting t
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
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> On Mon, July 23, 2012 11:25 am, Micah Gersten wrote:
>
> >> message:
> >> Added alacarte as per Quantal blueprints
> >> modified:
> >> audio-common
> >> desktop
>
> >> - * qmidiroute # added 20120709 - Len
> >> + * (qmidiroute) # added
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
> We have a package called ubuntustudio-icon-theme, but we don't use it.
> Instead we use xubuntu-icon-theme. Any of our own icons currently reside
> in ubuntustudio-default-settings and end up in /usr/share/pixmaps on the
> install. This has bee
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
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> On Sun, July 22, 2012 10:37 am, Shubham Mishra wrote:
>
> > On Sun, July 22, 2012 7:59 PM, Len Ovens wrote
> >> I want to add a menu item that opens
> >>software-center with libreoffice, abiword and gnumeric so that if the
> >> user
> >>wants
answering in line below
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> On Sat, July 21, 2012 5:18 am, C. F. Howlett wrote:
> >
> >>From my limited experience ...
> >
> > For Desktop Publishing, the premier FOSS app seems to be Scribus.
>
> There seem to be 3 packages of interest for Scri
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
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> On Fri, July 20, 2012 9:02 pm, C. F. Howlett wrote:
> > Desktop Publishing/DTP appears to have been dropped
> > from the default menus. I was asked for some font advice and confidently
> > went to US to create a quick font catalog only to fi
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 22:41 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
> Because my usb midi IF has male plugs, I have been using a through port
> which should only add delay and not jitter
You never know, a bad diode or opto-coupler could cause jitter, even if
it's very unlikely. I own adapters female to female.
I
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