I spent some time earlier in Illustrator, sourcing vector images of various UK channel logos from promotional PDFs issued by Freeview, Freesat and Sky and dumped them into individual SVG files for each channel.
I've placed them here for now: https://github.com/oldmanuk/uk-channel-logos
Ideally these could be used to build a decent set of images for use with VDR (e.g., PearlHD skin), EPG (yaepghd?) and web interface (live).
If anyone has any missing channel logos in vector form that they'd like to contribute, feel free.
Cheers, Dom
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
I spent some time earlier in Illustrator, sourcing vector images of various UK channel logos from promotional PDFs issued by Freeview, Freesat and Sky and dumped them into individual SVG files for each channel.
Excellent work, there's always lots of German logos for VDR, but very little for UK users.
Ideally these could be used to build a decent set of images for use with VDR (e.g., PearlHD skin), EPG (yaepghd?) and web interface (live).
Do they just need converting to XPM, PNG or something similar? How can we do this?
It would be great to convert them so that we can now use them in VDR.
Thanks
On 25 April 2011 21:27, Morfsta morfsta@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
I spent some time earlier in Illustrator, sourcing vector images of various UK channel logos from promotional PDFs issued by Freeview, Freesat and Sky and dumped them into individual SVG files for each channel.
Excellent work, there's always lots of German logos for VDR, but very little for UK users.
Thanks :-)
Ideally these could be used to build a decent set of images for use with VDR (e.g., PearlHD skin), EPG (yaepghd?) and web interface (live).
Do they just need converting to XPM, PNG or something similar? How can we do this?
It would be great to convert them so that we can now use them in VDR.
Yep. It is trivial to convert them to PNG or XPM, but the different skins and interfaces all seem to have different requirements in terms of pixel size and aspect ratio (e.g., 1:1 square crop vs free-form). I'll be looking into it shortly.
Hi Dominic,
On 21.04.2011 19:43, Dominic Evans wrote:
Ideally these could be used to build a decent set of images for use with VDR (e.g., PearlHD skin), EPG (yaepghd?) and web interface (live).
Thank you very much for those logos.
Currently I am using the anthra-HD skin and wanted your logos to blend in. Therefore I wrote a little skript to create them. All that is required is "convert" from the ImageMagick package and of course "git" to check out the logos.
Simply download the tgz from here: https://ilpss8.dyndns.org/~andrew/convert-to-liquid-logo.tgz
Unpack the archive into your working directory and run: convert-images/convert-to-liquid-logo.sh
The logos can then be found inside the directory liquid-logos4anthra_HD.
Enjoy! André
Hi André,
On 5 May 2011 14:10, André Weidemann Andre.Weidemann@web.de wrote:
Thank you very much for those logos.
My pleasure!
Currently I am using the anthra-HD skin and wanted your logos to blend in. Therefore I wrote a little skript to create them. All that is required is "convert" from the ImageMagick package and of course "git" to check out the logos.
Simply download the tgz from here: https://ilpss8.dyndns.org/~andrew/convert-to-liquid-logo.tgz
Unpack the archive into your working directory and run: convert-images/convert-to-liquid-logo.sh
The logos can then be found inside the directory liquid-logos4anthra_HD.
Excellent! Thank you for writing this script. I'll test them tonight with anthra.
One question, did ImageMagick work successfully for you when resizing the svg images? I had problems where it would seemingly render a bitmap at the default dpi of the svg and then do a lossy resize of that to the new dimensions. Ideally I'd want it to do a lossless resize of the svg first, before rendering the png.
Best regards, Dom
Hi Dominic,
Am 05.05.2011 16:05, schrieb Dominic Evans:
One question, did ImageMagick work successfully for you when resizing the svg images? I had problems where it would seemingly render a bitmap at the default dpi of the svg and then do a lossy resize of that to the new dimensions. Ideally I'd want it to do a lossless resize of the svg first, before rendering the png.
The paramter "-density 1000" did the trick for me. So if you do "convert -density 1000 BBC\ One.svg BBC\ One.png" the image is scaled smoothly to 375x277.
André
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