Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 07:22:21AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > Also, JPEG is designed for photographic images, solid color images or > line art tend to look like crap in JPEG format (have you seen what > happened to the white background of the old logo in JPEG format? it > ended up with a sligh

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Karlsson
Joel Klecker wrote: > I personally don't see the big deal with using GIF, our logo was > likely made with non-free software anyway, and it is possible to > write GIFs without infringing on the LZW patent (libungif, libgd 1.3 > or later). ...or by simply making sure the images were created in a co

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 02:22 -0400 1999-06-29, James A. Treacy wrote: Because I wasn't thinking. :) As long as the jpg image is of acceptable quality we can use it. I'm really not keen on the jpg format, though, for technical reasons. Editing a jpg is like washing clothes, but worse. Every time you edit it, the qua

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Makholm
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but I still believe we should > use .gif for the images on our site until .png is supported by > a large enough percentage of browsers in use. This wouldn't What about: Browsers which doesn't support probally

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:08:17PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Why not .jpg? We're using it for the logo, atleast, because transparency > isn't an issue.. the background of both logo and web page are white. > Because I wasn't thinking. :) As long as the jpg image is of acceptable quality we

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
> I'm all for picking one format to provide the most common sizes > (.jpg or .png) plus a single .fig, .ps and .xcf version. > > The big question is whether we should use .jpg or .png for the > supplied versions. I vote for .png. I don't. I suggest .jpg for the same reasons you don't think we sho

Re: Providing Logos

1999-06-29 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:36:01PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > With the old logo, we provided JPGs, PNGs and GIFs as well as anvarious > vector formats for peole who atned to create their own format/size... Do > we still want to provide all the different formats or maybe just (choosing > one)

Providing Logos

1999-06-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
With the old logo, we provided JPGs, PNGs and GIFs as well as anvarious vector formats for peole who atned to create their own format/size... Do we still want to provide all the different formats or maybe just (choosing one) jpgs and vector (I currently have xfig)? Other than deciding that, the n