[Clipart] Oodles of broken cliparts

[chovynz]

It's not necessarily a problem although I do see your point. (haha pun!)

I think you'll find that when you look at the clipart IN detail (as in:
after you download it and click on the picture from the detail page, so that
you are only looking at the clipart itself), you will see that the browser
renders it correctly.

I used to be quite hard on authors who uploaded unconverted text, however
I've had time to reflect, and in some cases it's actually useful to have
unconverted text i.e. a calendar. So that issue isn't resolved for me.
Yes/No could go either way, and I don't want to make it burdonsome for
uploaders, or users.

The problem that I wish to see fixed is a way to contact authors, because
there is currently no way other than the comments, to contact them. This is
related to copyrighted clipart, as well as semi-"broken" clipart. As far as
I understand we could get by without having the SVG interpret text
correctly, however we cannot get by with copyrighted material. Simple matter
is, we need to be able to contact any author.

And unfortunatly I don't yet know how to implement that, otherwise I
would've! :)

@ Bassel, here's an idea, next time you need to do a change on the OCAL, can
I suggest you grab one of us who wants Aiki training, and step us through
doing that change? It may take more time, for them to do it with your
oversight, but the more experience we get on actually doing it, the more
useful we'll be to you, (instead of always going "Hey Bassel!!!") It's
possible that we may even screw up, but hey that's what backups are for
right? (You do have backups correct?) The more we screw up the better our
coding will be in the long run!

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:20 AM, J. Alves <alvesjmp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nearly every time I visit OCAL's front page, I see this problem:
> people do not convert the text in their SVG to paths. So, it all shows
> as squares in my browser/OS (Firefox/Ubuntu, in this case, but also
> happens in other browsers). I don't know how it would look in a system
> that has the font that was used, but I'm supposing it looks fine, or
> these people would have noticed that squares there instead of the text
> they intended.
>
> So, my question/suggestion is: would it be possible for the SVG
> processing step that happens during upload to automatically REJECT an
> clipart that has unconverted text in it? (and tell the submitter what
> the problem was and how to solve it, of course) I don't know much
> about SVG, but it does not sound too difficult if certain tags are
> present and whatnot...
>
> Or is that too drastic or undesirable for some other reason? Either
> way, there must be a way to fix this problem. Just contacting the
> author and letting him/her know of the problem after the fact does not
> always work -- specially if the comments do not get emailed to the
> author, who might never see the comment.
>
> Cheers
> J
>
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Cheers
Chovynz
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