From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 13 14:52:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBCD37B405; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r5.bfm.org [216.127.220.101]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:58:50 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010712155430.00b77c20@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:54:30 -0500 To: Nik Clayton From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: ASCII Diagram Replacements Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010712112942.U97290@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:29 2001-07-12 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >I'm trying to avoid mandating any particular image editor if at all possible. Good! I have just spent 24 hours (except about 4 hours of sleep) trying to install dia. It has way too many dependencies. I finally came to a point where the make kept crashing at the same place, and I was forced to give up. I am currently downloading Lee's tgz files and will see if that helps. >I think it is worth trying to mandate a house style though. > >For example, take a look at > > http://ora-design.ora.com/illus_dept/!active.html > >and the various graphics there (for example, under "Server Load >Balancing"). It's clear they're all from the same source -- the >commonality of the icons, the width of lines, the size of arrowheads, the >fact that lines are shown with rounded corners instead of right angles, >the font used for text in the image, the dashed lines to show different >domains, It would be nice if, when you click on any of the "eps" links, you got the eps files. But they only give you a gif image. In other words, if you want to emulate them, someone will have to draw the icons first. >Dia, Kivio, xfig, Sketch, or some other tool. Perhaps we could even >have our own library of icons that can be used ("router", "host", >"network cloud", "printer", ...) that can be used when putting together >illustrations? As long as someone is willing to create it. :) Cheers, Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message