Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:54:30 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII Diagram Replacements Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010712155430.00b77c20@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20010712112942.U97290@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0107111704020.52052-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0107111704020.52052-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
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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
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