[scribus] Scribus Icons Contest 2011

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 9 23:08:29 UTC 2011


On 10/09/2011 05:18 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:10 PM, JLuc wrote:
>
>> AMOF&  AFAIK, SVG is usualy the icon design extension (along with AI).
>
> Well, Inkscape has become a sort of standard de-facto for icon design.
> Hence SVG is the source file format. The GNOME team which I mentioned
> there uses the so called one-canvas workflow. What it means is that
> versions of an icon in all sizes are created in a single document,
> pixel grid aligned, with uniform IDs for all groups that contain all
> pieces of one icon. Then a Ruby script goes through every such
> document to do exporting of SVG to PNG. It's quite convinient. The
> archive that is linked from G+ thread has that script.
>

It does take some careful review when making 16px icons from SVGs.

Greg




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