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Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)



Brandon said:
> Last time I asked what a good open source logo would look like (or some
> related question) irc got pretty quiet.  This seems to be the thing no one
> knows.  Wasn't there an open source logo contest?  I think of things like
> an open box or open book.  I also like this poster of a light house I have
> which seems appropriate.  If we get some good ideas, maybe some gimp'ers
> would be willing to draw them up before this contest is over.  Our request
> to the gimp contest team was too vague and directionless.  Without
> direction, all they can do is lots of different fonts and modifications of
> the word debian.

As I said before, I think gimp is not the tool to create logos with.
It would be a tool to make a really fancy version.  I think a vector
based drawing program is what you want to start with, so you can easily
get a scalable version, and translate nicely to postscript, which can
be included in most word processors / TeX, and which can be easily
converted to any odd format.  The only vector based drawing program I
know on linux is xfig, which is rather rusty to say the least.  Are
there any others (mostly interested in free software here)?

Eric Meijer

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