R logo as SVG ?
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
G. Jay Kerns wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
Jens Elkner wrote:
Hi, does anybody have the R logo in a vector format preferable SVG? Need it for Freedesktop (GNOME desktop) integration of Rcmdr ... Thanx, jel.
Not really. I played around with the tracer in inkscape at some point, but it didn't come out quite satisfactory. It's a bit of a time sink unless you happen to know inkscape (or similar) rather well, but if someone is willing to put in the effort, I'm sure the results would be more than welcome on CRAN.
As it happens, I made one with Inkscape a couple of months ago. If memory serves, I did 50 scans of the .png. http://people.ysu.edu/~gkerns/R-logo.svg
OK - thanx. Good source for studying its structure.
Thanks. Certainly looks better than what I had left around. A full megabyte might be a bit much for a desktop icon, though.
Yes and scaling would be too resource consuming as well (very bad for menus, etc.). I think, the most challenging part here is all the [different type of] shadows. So does anybody know, who made the original pixel based image? If not raytraced and steps for reproduction are available (e.g. gimp/psp layers), it should be possible to produce a less resource consuming but pretty close svg (at least at the given size ;-)). Regards, jel.
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