Published by jon at August 30, 2006
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Hello, I posted over at Open Clip Art Library’s website, but I wanted to get maximize readership:
Hello, our new engine, ccHost, now accepts SVG files thanks to the great work by Roan! Everyone should +10 thank him! Please see the great functioning test site: http://www.openclipart.org/cchostSo, please help us best by uploading test SVG files to this installation. We hope to move to it very shortly (hopefully within the week). There are still a few tasks in the migration we need help with such as:
- export of our content from the old system to the new one
- SVG thumbnails
- writing metadata to SVG files in getid3
- migration of old web content from old site to the new one
The tasks are listed on the ccHost Migration page on the wiki. Please e-mail the mailing list or hop onto our chat channel, #openclipart on irc.freenode.net if you want to help out. We are very close now to switching to this new infrastructure. If you are having any problems uploading to the present site, please try the new one at http://www.openclipart.org/cchost. Thanks!
Published by jon at August 26, 2006
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Deer Fang has a good observation on immigration and locally-owned businesses in San Francisco. I totally am avoiding Noe Valley now after having a rude shopkeeper talk down to me at Tuggy’s Hardware Shop about buying vacuum bags. Also, I’m really not into the overpriced products up-the-hill from where I live.
I’m all about going down the hill to the cheaper markets and nicer people from where I live in the mission in San Francisco. I live half-way between the gentrified, expensive baby strolling, mom-toting, Noe and the cool Mission.
Published by jon at August 23, 2006
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I have been committing patches to Inkscape left and right. Today I added one for pig latin. Looks like I had to do some pioneering to get pig latin to work in Linux. I wrote about it on the pig latin page in wikipedia in case others want to add fun languages to their list of translations.
Basically, to add your own language that is not from some country locale, you really should base it on some locale. For example, if I wanted to add an black vernacular english translation, I would create this in the file en_US@bve.po. Similarly, if I wanted to create a translation for midwest English, I’d create en_US@midwest.po.
Anyway, to test out pig latin in Inkscape, run from the commandline:
LANG=en_US@piglatin inkscape
Published by jon at August 20, 2006
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This is pretty mind-blowing, but make sense. There are a few howto videos on youtube explaining how to draw.
Published by jon at August 20, 2006
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Here is a good example using the aforementioned Inkscape Smart Shapes and what it could do to the shape of clip art:
This piece is Hans Solitude and is released under a CC ShareAlike 1.0 license.
Published by jon at August 20, 2006
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Bryce had a really great idea about making smart shapes in Inkscape (this is my informal nudging to get him to blog about it properly). Basically, there would be shapes in Inkscape that would include code and the shape (morphology) of the objects would/could effect the code in the shape. THen, one could use connectors to create a computer program between different objects thus creating a nice way to create extensions, not to mention an easy way for users to get into programming and creating interesting clip art.
This idea reminds me of Miller Puckette’s PD (short for pure data and also public domain). His app is used by oh so many art kids to rock experimental audio. I fortunately had to chance to study with Miller at CRCA @ UCSD.
Published by jon at August 20, 2006
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I’m collecting links for everyone to read:
Here is a list of questions:
- Does anyone know of a good Open Sourced OCR program for character recognition? I only really am finding this one app: http://jocr.sf.net/
- I have found this newsforge article which lays out the field. I’m thinking that adding OCR support to Inkscape would be killer along with our Trace Bitmap option.
- OCRAD looks interesting as well and possibly the best for FLOSS right now…
According to this Novell sponsored poll, Linux Users are demanding Photoshop… I have been wondering what is next for the GIMP. What do you all think? I have been discussing with others a possible strategy of really pushing hard on GEGL and librar’ification of the core raster functions from GIMP, something akin to CAIRO, but for rasters. Hopefully this strategy would open up GIMP to the outside community more and seed some other projects which focus on a diverse part of raster/bitmap needs. Also, I think it would be good to have a slight rename of GIMP to encourage people into using it. Photoshop is an awesome name for an app, but GIMP has very little outside-of-open-source connection with graphics. What about something like RASTA (get it…raster, but with dreads), pixelpusher (literally), photoverse, phototype, and the list goes on…please comment!
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