Re: preview-latex icon proposal

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * Jan-Ake Larsson (2005-02-17) writes:
>
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> a) the "man in the middle" looks better in your proposal, no question
>>> about it.
>>> b) the black border around the sign is a mistake: at this size, it has
>>> either be so thin that we get heavy digitilization artifacts, in
>>> particular with rounded curves, or so thick that it dominates the
>>> color which should be red.
>>> c) SVG or not: I am afraid that one would still need to edit out
>>> digitization artifacts by hand (aka hinting).
>>
>> Agreed. Unfortunately, I have to say, I like the triangular signs
>> better. And if it is only the question of hand-editing four images,...
>
> Well, it would not be a problem to export the manikin in various
> sizes and insert it into the triangles of the current icons.  But
> those triangles suffered from scaling as well.  For example the 12px
> and 20px triangles have a somewhat bumpy top.

"suffered from scaling" is the understatement of the year.  I think
that I actually tried avoiding scaling artifacts at some sizes by
doing a copy&paste&trim job, but that was not necessarily a win,
resulting in uneven features.

Ok, can you try working with the following triangles?  I've taken
quite a bit of pain getting them right as well as I could manage.  If
you fill in your little man, and don't do any dithering or other
nonsense when saving, we should get closer to "good".



-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum