[projectaon] Re: 01HH Map
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:48:34 +0100
David Davis wrote:
Do we really need to worry about browsers which don't support GIF
in 2008? What browsers would these be, and what OS would they
conceivably be running on?
Windows 3.1? :)
I'll also voice my support for moving over to PNG, but the problem is apparently
as much in the build files, since I think they are configured for GIFs?I have no
idea how to fix those, and no idea how/where to upload any GIF -> PNG
conversions. Robert Wellock recently posted that in his converting the PA gfx
files "on average [I] was getting around 10-20% compression (on nearly all *.gif
files not just the illustrations) purely by lossless converting them to PNG-8."
So this does seem like an avenue worth exploring, if we can get the technical
side working.
PNG doesn't support layers, no.
For off-line viewing, the format of choice for a map like this (where
the text is rendered as real text, in a font)
would be PDF (although - if you build it in PSP, I don't think you'll
get that - you'll need to build it in Illustrator
or similar).
No, the text becomes an image, unfortunately. On the other hand, this isn't text
that will need to be edited, and shifting the labels arund is a painless task
now, so it's not all bad news.
If Jon wants to, I would love to create an Atlas of Magnamund using high-res
scans of the original maps. I have one in the works, but it only uses the same
heavily-images we use in the online versions. I think Jon said most of the maps
come in two parts--the colour image and a separate transparency with the labels
printed on it. I wonder whether it would be possible to scan the image and the
transparency separately?
For online display with layers and real text, the new-fangled SVG would
probably be the thing...
Too tricky for me! :-)
Here's the latest:
<http://www.projectaon.org/staff/simon/FW01HH_Map(New)2(NewLabels)3.png>
(Forgive the increasingly ridiculous filename; I like to keep several copies of
the file in various states of completion in case I need to reverse something
major.) The roads are all replaced, with a minor blurring on that layer to make
them marry up to the background image more naturally. I also re-drew the Fort
Hood Military Reserve boundary separately as the scanned copy looked a right mess!
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon Graphician (Learner)
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