At 06:18 PM 4/12/2006, Stefan Heymann wrote:

>So what's the official path for approval?

That I consider them good enough. :-)

>And where are the official Firebird logos? The gloat logos are,
>well, just gloat logos.

On my hard disk, in various forms and formats. Really just waiting
for someone like you to come along who really knows what he's doing
with resizeable images. So - we're still waiting for you to hand
them over. ;-) (I've never seen your page before, incidentally,
until you de-closeted in in this list.)

>I created this page because I needed a "correct" logo for my software
>and I didn't find it. I managed to get a CDR file from someone and
>converted that to the various formats. The Firebird Project is of
>course free to use them (and any other Firebird related material on my
>website) and/or publish them on the Firebird website.

Erm, I *think* I understand what you're saying there, Stefan, but it
comes out sort of upside down.

Re documentation items - I strongly urge you to offer seriously
interesting stuff to the firebird-docs project. I mention this in
part because I noticed you signed up to a list yesterday (the wrong
one, as it happens). Subscribe to the firebird-docs list and you
will be loved for it. :-)

>BTW, Zaher is correct in that the logo that appears on the Windows
>installer is ugly, because it has been rendered without any
>antialiasing. This is the first impression a newbie gets from Firebird
>and IMHO it's not a good one.

I agree, it's not nice. It looks to be one of the set that Pavel
rendered in Corel Draw a few years ago that I, for one, could not
persuade to behave nicely in other graphics programs, nor in Adobe,
nor at the website. One really only needs to extract that graphic
from CVS and silently replace it with a less "lossy" rendering...e.g.
one of yours of suitable dimensions, now that they are available.

Helen