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Valerie,<br>
<br>
I have been working with a newsletter for a few years now and have almost
always preferred to insert the pictures in jpg format. However, this past
month, I revamped that newsletter, wanting to use some neat new features
in the updated program I use for that. I wanted to do things like add drop
shadows. However, my jpg pictures were awful when trying to enhance them
that way. I have been hearing a lot about PNG files this past year, as an
acceptable alternative to GIF, which is a proprietary Compuserve format.
I tried it and I love the format. No more lossy jpg. A lot of my jpg
files look as if they have a pure white background but in reality, there
are a lot of pixels a fraction of a shade off. While this is ok for the
most part, it's when you want to do something with the pictures beyond their
initial purpose that the trouble starts.<br>
<br>
I'm trying to look down the road here and thinking of the pictures being
exported from signback - for whatever purpose. While I know you are looking
at Signwriting as one day not relying on pictures, perhaps for the interim
we can encourage creation of signs in picture formats that are clean, clear
and crisp. <br>
<br>
Would it be possible to store PNG formatted pictures in SignBank?<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
<br>
<br>
Valerie Sutton wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid113C034A-2990-11D7-AA20-0003939C23D4@signwriting.org">SignWriting
List <br>
January 16, 2003 <br>
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ADDING SIGNS TO SIGNBANK continued.... <br>
See the American sign for "airplane" in the attached diagram? Please send
me your sign for "airplane" in your Sign Language...any Sign Language is
welcome...I hope we will receive the German, Norwegian, Swiss-German, Brazilian,
Colombian, Saudi Arabian signs for airplane...etc... <br>
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<center><img src="cid:part1.01040709.04010001@tampabay.rr.com">
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How to do this? Type the sign for "airplane" in SignWriter DOS, export it
to BMP, and create a GIF or a JPEG. Then attach the single GIF or JPEG to
an email message and send it to the SignWriting List. With your GIFs or JPEGs,
I will start a separate SignBank for each country with one sign - "airplane"!....
<br>
<br>
When I add those signs, I will show you how I did it...slowly we can build
an international database this way... <br>
<br>
So I am waiting for your signs....smile... <br>
<br>
Val ;-) <br>
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Valerie Sutton <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</a> <br>
<br>
Sign Languages <br>
are written languages! <br>
<br>
SignWritingSite <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</a> <br>
Read & Write Sign Languages <br>
<br>
SignBankSite <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.SignBank.org">http://www.SignBank.org</a> <br>
Sign Language Databases <br>
<br>
DanceWritingSite <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.DanceWriting.org">http://www.DanceWriting.org</a> <br>
Read & Write Dance <br>
<br>
MovementWritingSite <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.MovementWriting.org">http://www.MovementWriting.org</a> <br>
Read & Write Movement & Gesture </p>
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