Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild, 22/01/2013 14:34:
Dear Federico,
On 21 January 2013 21:23, Federico Levafedericoleva@tiscali.it wrote:
I'd like the non vendor-neutral icons for PDF files to be replaced to the largest extent possible.
So do we! We are working on adding a page to pdfreaders.org on the topic. You can take a look at the development version at http://test.pdfreaders.org/initiative.en.html. (All comments are welcome.)
Nice! I think you should briefly explain that PDF does not "belong to" Adobe, because it's an ISO standard used by libraries etc.; and also that free readers are better, for instance when I still used Windows I greatly benefited from SumatraPDF (and that was 5 years ago).
I see that even fedora uses an A for PDFs, but I want to propose to replace the icon MediaWiki uses for its external file links: attached you can see the current icons.
We would rather prefer the look and feel of the graphics currently available on pdfreaders.org.
Sure, I was saying that our icons are very ugly and uninformative, which is why I'd like to replace them.
The problem with http://pdfreaders.org/graphics/pdfreaders-f.svg is that the "PDF" is unreadable at 12 px. do you have suggestions?
We are aware of the problem. Personally I am of the opinion that we should have someone from FSFE Design team modify the icon and make the text a bit larger. However, that needs to be discussed internally first.
I think this should be done before that letter, otherwise the recommendation has little practical impact (for instance, for MediaWiki that icon is useless); or, the letter could include a call for designers and have creation of a suitable common icon as one of its purposes. Regards, Federico