[tei-council] TEI SVG logo is broken

[James Cummings]

I've asked Rowan if he has the original files around.

-James

On 22/02/13 18:06, Lou Burnard wrote:
> "Julia Flanders thanked Geoffrey Rockwell and Sebastian Rahtz, who took
> the lead in the design process, and also thanked the logo's designers:
> Andrew Paulin of McMaster University, who undertook the initial design
> and produced a number of prototypes from which a few were selected for
> further development; and Rowan Wilson of Oxford University, who took
> Andrew's prototype and developed it into a finished logo. The membership
> instructed the Chair to thank both Andrew and Rowan for their work."
>
> It was probably on a desktop somewhere in Oxford ... once.
>
>
> On 22/02/13 17:55, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> I managed to do a conversion, but the result is an SVG file that
>> consists of base64 data for a PNG bitmap. Not really SVG at all.
>> Presumably the original logo was done as a vector, so if we can find the
>> .ai file, we should be able to generate a proper SVG version.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 13-02-22 09:48 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I wanted to use the SVG TEI logo here:
>>>
>>> <http://www.tei-c.org/About/Logos/>
>>>
>>> in a presentation, but Inkscape refuses to open it. When I look at it in
>>> Oxygen, it appears to be full of horrible Adobe-specific extensions.
>>> Does anyone have the original .ai file it came from? It would be nice to
>>> create a clean compliant SVG version of the logo. I think it's possible
>>> to generate proper SVG from .ai files one way or another.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>


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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
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