AW: AW: our graphics quality is excellent

Tue Dec 27 07:49:13 UTC 2011

Well Bill, 

it is not only that .. There is another problem as well ...  symbols of the
right hand show up as symbols for the left hand.

Stefan

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[mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] Im Auftrag von Bill Reese
Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2011 07:34
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Betreff: Re: AW: our graphics quality is excellent

You're right, in a way Stefan.  I didn't edit out the symbols enough to
remove extra black portions.  I think those may be the white areas of
symbols that get converted to black somehow.   They can be deleted easy
enough in Inkscape but the person editing needs to know enough to do so. 

Apparently, the extraction of the SVG from the PDF didn't handle the white
areas correctly.

Bill

On 12/26/2011 6:04 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote: 

Hi Bill, 

I could open the attachment. 

This is so funny  well there is a dramatic change within the symbols.
Obviously this method does not work. ;-( 

Stefan 

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[mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] Im Auftrag von Bill Reese
Gesendet: Montag, 26. Dezember 2011 20:39
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Betreff: Re: our graphics quality is excellent

Although ... still can't seem to post svg in the body of an email ...

Let's see if an attachment works ...

Bill

On 12/26/2011 1:32 PM, Bill Reese wrote: 

Some people don't have Photoshop so I looked for a another way to work with
Stepan's PDF files.

I opened his PDF file of the column in GSview, which runs Ghostscript.  I
then chose Edit->convert to vector format->magick driver.  This driver uses
GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick to do conversions.  I have GraphicsMagick
installed on the Windows XP system I was doing this on.   When naming the
output file, I gave it an ".svg" extension, which tells the driver what
format I want to convert to.  After conversion, I opened the file in
Inkscape and deleted a couple of black boxes obscuring the images and also a
black curve in the arrow of the the fourth sign.   Then, like Stefan, I did
a little different layout, grouping into signs first, then moving the signs
around.

Bill

On 12/25/2011 1:01 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote: 

Hi Ingvild, Valerie, Jonathan, Steve and friends, ... 

First of all ... 

Second: 

I spent some time to understand the postings about Ingvilds problem with
the quality of the graphics for publishing. 

Finally I found a neat work around and I hope it works... 

Once you have finished the graphics with  SignPuddle  Column-Maker  (SVG
Refinement)  right click on the given column and look for  Print actual
frame

I installed a program called  PDF24  - and voila I get a perfect PDF of this
column as you can see in the attached Merry Christmas file ;-) 

If you want to, you can open the PDF in Photoshop in order to continue your
work. In this case a wrote the same text from left to right.. 

I feel so happy that this procedure is working. Wow  Adam  and Steve and
Valerie your cooperation allowed us to print materials with excellent
graphics quality. Congratulations!! 

I do not know yet what the publisher for literature would say  but to me it
looks good. 

Hope all of you are doing fine! 

Stefan 

SignWriting List

December 20, 2011

I am glad to know this too, Ingvild - To finally have publishers and
printers stating that our graphics quality is excellent is a big step
forward, because before SVG, we had bitmaps with staircased-circles, so this
is great news they could use svg for publishing printed materials -

Not everyone knows how to use .svg - it is great on the web, but to use it
inside book-layout-software is another story - I hope to learn how to do
this myself later - 

what would really help, Steve, is to be able to print to PDF from
ColumnMaker once the svg format is refreshed and ready to go - svg to pdf is
needed - 

Val ;-)

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