Counter to Fedora 8 release?

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Tue Oct 23 06:17:01 UTC 2007


Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
>> How does the date thing work?  Is it sufficient to:
>>  convert werewolf8_color.svg werewolf8_color.png
>> and post the png file somewhere accessible, once a day and it
>> automatically counts down?  if so that should be easy to get running.
> 
> Well you'd have to input the number to the SVG generation script too so 
> we need a script with smarts to figure out what the day value should be.
> 
> Also I think convert would work fine for Nicu's artwork but the banner I 
> did will need to be modified to work with convert (only comes out right 
> if you use command-line inkscape) - it's totally do-able just a little 
> less blingy.

No, I don't think it would work for the _color_ version (but I can 
simplify it, remove gradients and drop shadow - they are less noticeable 
when the image is exported at a small size as it should).

You know, we can get to an alternate route: export the bitmap one time 
and then add the counter with imagemagick or gd and even leave out all 
the font availability problem by creating pre-rendered images for all 
the possible digits, from 0 to 9 (yes, it is old school compared with 
modifying the SVG on the fly, but is tried and true).

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