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From: "Mike Jarvis" <>
Subject: RE: [USGenWeb-SW] Some photos from the conference
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:44:59 -0700
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For the record, our Alternate Logo # 2, is a fully scalable vector
file which the project has in its native Adobe Illustrator
format. It can be easily sized for something like this banner use
without any loss of image quality. Mike St. Clair is quite right
about the other three images. None of them can be scaled to a larger
size without a major loss of image quality.

Thanks to all the FGS volunteers for your work at this conference!

Mike Jarvis

At 01:00 AM 9/10/2005, Mike St. Clair wrote:
>There is a technical reason. All of the logos, new and old, are only
>available in very small-sized versions in bit mapped formats. To put
>something on a banner or anything that requires a drastic increase in size,
>it needs to be in vector graphics format. I know you can just "resize" with
>any number of programs but you end up with the jaggies, or blurriness, or
>both. So we really badly need at least one of our logos in vector graphics
>format. Several people made attempts to do a conversion in the short time
>available, and alas they were unsuccesseful. The banner shop had to
>simulate something based on artwork they already had or charge us far more
>than was available to custom create a vector graphics version of one of our
>real logos. David had to choose between a text-only banner or what the
>company had and he felt this was the better choice. I think it looks great
>- I'd a lot rather it was an official logo, but this time around we didn't
>have that choice.


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