[projectaon] Re: Proposed new CRT
- From: Iain Smith <iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
I'd never really spent much time looking into SVG until now but decided to give
it a try since I had a couple of hours free. I created a reasonable
representation of the basic table in SVG using Inkscape (attached) and made a
few notes.
1) The file size is large (318k), but since it is essentially an XML file it
compresses well in a zip (17k). There may be a lot of redundant information in
the SVG which can be stripped out, perhaps someone has this knowledge?
2) Firefox can open the SVG file and view the image, but it does not scale and
cannot be resized. The image can only be viewed at the original size and
resolution.
3) While Firefox can view the file when opened by the browser, it doesn't
display if placed inside an IMG tag. I'm not sure if I'm doing something silly
or it's simply not possible.
Iain.
----- Original Message ----
From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, 13 April, 2009 23:13:24
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Proposed new CRT
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Ingo Kloecker
<projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
> I do not like
> - that it's way too small for modern screens (as the others already
> wrote);
>
> - the different width of the columns;
> - the look of the negative numbers
I was trying to avoid having two charts and yet retain the basic
configuration from the books (i.e. combat ratio across the top and
random number along the sides). This led to the rather small chart. I
could easily make one chart that's more legible if it had the random
numbers along the top and bottom. This would require either changing
the text in the books or adding an explanation somewhere.
> If you really want to revise the CRT then I suggest re-doing it as SVG.
> The most apparent benefit would be that it would scale nicely to large
> resolution.
I thought about this. The best option that I'm aware of to create SVG
is Inkscape. Any other suggestions?
--
Jon
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