Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Call for an Icon

[David Brown]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:58:30AM -0400, Clark McGrew wrote:

> > >     >   http://www.yuv.info/~wavexx/octothing.png

> After you have a final version, you could use autotrace to convert it to
> a vector format (svg, xfig, postscript or whatever) and then scaling is
> trivial.  Unfortunately, the current version has shading so it may not 
> vectorize well, but I'm not a graphics expert (I failed kindergarden
> art) and there might be tricks to handle that.  

The shading on that document would be difficult to render using
something like Illustrator.  You could get a very small SVG, EPS, or pdf
file out of it.

However, I think some are be uncomfortable using proprietary tools to
produce things for free software (even icons).

Dave