Re: Fwd: [jox-tech] Re: Layout
- From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:25:21 +0200
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Hi Stefan
I dont know about the transparency issue, I used to do design work using proprietary software but that was more than ten years ago, so I am quite rusty.
Thanks for putting the title up, in my view there are positives and less-positives about it.
Good: the size and type the font is OK, I think.
Less good: it looks a bit sad, needs some colour. Might work better with the subtitle in red. Also the line is too long, it should be aligned to the subtitle, I will fix that and send you a new version tomorrow.
When this comes: in terms of layout ideally the title should be aligned to the left-most edge of the category toolbar, just looks neater that way.
Have you thought about the white space issue? The page is very full presently, needs some breathing space IMO...
cheers,
Mathieu
----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:37 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: [jox-tech] Re: Layout
To: journal-tech oekonux.org
Hi Mathieu!
I reply through the list since I think there are more knowledgeable
people.
Yesterday Mathieu ONeil wrote:
Here is an attempt for the title, in two formats; hope it
works out. I can't
cut it into a rectangle / right format with the software I
have here (open
office), let me know if you cannot do it either, i will try to
transfer it to
a different system.
The format was fine - especially since the OpenOffice format you chose
is vector based and as such can be scaled arbitrarily.
However, for the website we need a pixel image. These are the
steps I
took:
1. Export the OpenOffice graphic to PDF
2. Import the PDF into Gimp
This is where I scaled it to a size of 651x149
pixels. 650 pixels
is fine for the free space in the Mimbo layout.
This is
also the point where Gimp anti-aliases.
What is missing is transparency. I didn't manage to make transparency
From the anti-aliased pixels :-( . In Gimp it is easy to
transform a
single color to transparency. But that doesn't suffer. This doesn't
matter much at the moment since we have white background. But this
should be fixed. For this I added a couple of relevant files and I
hope there is someone here who can add transparency the right way.
In any case the result is quite ok IMHO. I put it to the website.
Grüße
Stefan
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Dr Mathieu O'Neil
Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University
email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
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