On Wednesday 23 September 2015 18:27:06 Jonathan Blake wrote:
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 at 03:16 Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
On 21-Sep-15 5:46 PM, Jonathan Blake wrote:
Joe has a posted a pretty cool announcement for any vexillology
enthusiasts in the crowd: hundreds of flags from around Magnamund.
They're posted on the blog, but I think this deserves more
attention.
I'd like to put them on our Books page, but before we do, we could
make the text on the images more legible. Anyone willing to help
out? The one suggestion I have is to use a lossless image format
like PNG so that we don't make the JPEG artifacts worse. We might
also want to encapsulate these in a PDF, though that's probably
not necessary.
http://www.projectaon.org/en/blog/2015/09/flags-of-magnamund/
You mean like this?
<http://projectaon.org/staff/simon/SVG_Illustrations/Flags1.pdf>
I've only worked through the first image so far. I saved the image
as a PNG, deleted the text parts, added the PNG to a SVG document
and replaced the labels with selectable text. Anyone better than me
at reducing JPEG artefacting might want to see if they can improve
the graphic part, but the labels are now easier to read.
If this is the sort of thing you were thinking of, Jon, I can have a
go at the rest of them also, though it's a bit of a slow job.
Thanks, Simon. That was the idea. It is slow going. I had tried to
slice the images up with ImageMagick so we do a layout of the
individual flags and speed things up a bit, but I couldn't figure out
a good way.