Hi Marc and all!
Marc Eberhard wrote on May 21, 2001 at 08:12AM +0100:
details is no longer the primary issue. I collected the three versions you already know along with a couple of variations on one of them and links to actual gnu images on the following page:
... again, could you please be so kind to number them. Thanks!
OK
Please let me know which image you prefer (or combinations of them). I will try to incorporate your preferences into the final version.
I like the rightmost one of the original logo proposals best. The map in the background and the text around look really good.
Just to be sure there is no misunderstanding: The image with map and Latin motto currently serves as a sample only. Please look at the gnu sketches only for the moment and tell me which looks most gnu-ish to you. The final version will have map, drop shadow and motto, too, but at the moment, I am working on the line art part since this is the central element.
I wonder, if we could use a real picture of Europe from a satellite, similar to the ones on the xplanet home page (http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/) instead of the single color map.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
PS: Which free software program will you use, to create the vector version of it? Guess, you're not going to edit a postscript file by hand as I usually do it. :-(
I am using xfig and / or sketch with and without autotrace (with and without pstoedit). Each has have some advantages and disadvantages. I can tell you afterwards which of them I used mostly.
http://homepages.go.com/~martweb/AutoTrace.htm http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/ http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ http://www.xfig.org/
Kudos to Frank Heckenbach for much appreciated help with autotrace :-)
Regards,
Anja