[Gvsig_english] Brand-new set of 50 North arrows for the Gvsig's community

[César Martínez Izquierdo]

grossosilvio escribió:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I would like to donate for free to the Gvsig's project and to its 
> community a set of 50 new North arrows to add in the folder of gvsig 
> together with the 8 others North arrows already present by default.
> The path to find them is 
> bin/gvSIG/extensiones/com.iver.cit.gvsig/northimages.
> You can import them as svg images as well.
> To colour them you have to use Inkscape before importing them because, 
> at present, it's not possible to do it with Gvsig.
> In this regard, Arcgis 9 has more than 95 North arrows symbols and I 
> would like to increase the Gvsig's number to equalize a little bit the 
> score... :-) .
> 
> I drew all the images with Inkscape 0.45.1 (a BIG thanks to every member 
> of this list for the past suggestions).
> Their format is svg pure (not Inkscape svg).
> I changed the text font with an object to avoid problems (sorry for the 
> translation).
> They are all black (but one can change their colour with Inkscape).
> The symbols are ordered alphabetically regarding their "complexity".
> The first10 symbols pointing to North (gvsig_1 until gvsig_10); 30 
> symbols pointing to N-E (gvsig 11 until gvsig 40); the last 10 symbols 
> pointing in all directions (gvsig 41 until gvsig 50).
> For the 10 last arrows (gvsig_40 to gvsig_50) I didn't use the English 
> to translate the directions so you'll find O instead of W to indicate 
> the West. Of course, one can use the first 40 symbols to avoid problems 
> of translation.
> I named the symbols gvsig_1, gvsig_2 and so on  in order to avoid future 
> problems for their translation towards differents languages, Besides, I 
> haven't the imagination to invent 50 names for the images.
> Arcgis names its images Esri North 1, Esri North 2 and so on.
> I checked all the images with Gimp, Scribus.
> Of course, I have tested all of them with Gvsig, one by one.
> In particular, I tested them with a Windows platform (Windows xp home 
> edition and Windows 2000 professional) on 3 different computers.
> I saved some map as pdf and I printed them to check the results.
> I used both Gvsig 1.1 portable and Gvsig 1.1 installed on my computer.
> 
> I attached a zip file with a pdf file with the preview of all the images 
> and, needless to say, the zip file with the 50 svg images to try them at 
> will.
> If someone has the time to test some of them it would be really helpful.
> 
> At present, I don't know if all of them will be accepted from the 
> Gvsig's team. It's not up to me.
> Nevertheless, I do hope the best of them will be included in some future 
> Gvsig's versions.
> 
> Have fun and keep going using Gvsig :-)
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Silvio Grosso
> 

Great work, Silvio!
Besides Italian, the last 10 arrows are also useful in Spanish, French, 
Catalan and maybe other languages.

We are happy to have so participative community!
Keep rocking!

-- 
César Martínez Izquierdo
Equipo de desarrollo gvSIG
http://www.gvsig.gva.es

IVER T.I.
C/ Lérida 20
46009 Valencia - Spain
http://www.iver.es


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