Re: vectorize bitmaps

[Diana Fong <dfong redhat com>]

Great work Nicu!  Vectorizing the bitmap was definitely something that 
might have been "gotten around to" later...but totally appreciate your 
insight and initiative to do this. =) 

A question...The portion that I used was the upper right side with only 
a bit of the horizon...as shown in my png version of the icon.  Is it a 
lot of work for you to reconvert a cropped version that I send you or 
should I just alter the vector version?  By using more sky and a bit of 
land, makes the picture a bit more interesting/dynamic...the whole 
picture is a bit more 50/50 and so has a more heavy and less appealing 
look...imo. =)

Thanks
Diana


Nicu Buculei wrote:
> This may be a crazy and worthless idea:
>
> I noticed the image-x-generic icon 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=image-x-genericL.png) 
> contains an embedded bitmap 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=landscape.jpg). 
>
>
> How about using a vectorized version of the bitmap?
>
> The downside is the SVG resulted after tracing loses a lot of details 
> and have a large file size, but is much easier to work with it in a 
> vector application.
>
> The bitmap after tracing: 
> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/landscape_traced.svg
>
> The image-x-generic icon using the traced vector image instead of bitmap:
> - SVG: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/image-x-genericL_traced.svg 
> (yes, is full vector)
> - PNG: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/image-x-genericL_traced.png
>
> note: I have no shadow and the outline is not quite the same, this can 
> be corrected easily.