AW: our graphics quality is excellent

[Bill Reese]

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
> *An:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> *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 Ingvild's 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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