Comments on: Hacker’s Certificate of Authenticity http://alone-in-the-light.zenvoid.org/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html Free software, open source, copyleft, technology, art, knowledge. Freedom. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roberto http://alone-in-the-light.zenvoid.org/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html/comment-page-1#comment-122 Roberto Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:42:20 +0000 http://zenvoid.org/rgs/wordpress/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html#comment-122 Hello Phil. You can get the font with "apt-get install ttf-sil-gentium" (or your preferred package manager) in your Ubuntu installation. It is contained in the Universe repository, not installed by default, but has a free license and it is a nice font. There should be no need to replace it with another (unless you want to do that, of course). About the PNG file: the previous version was actually made with vector rectangles, it was changed to PNG data in this version for convenience; there are command line barcode generators that takes an input text and produces an output PNG file. Changing the encoded text this way is very easy and almost instantaneous, I've once used it in a script to generate a few hundred stickers, each one with different encoded text in its barcode. Anyways, you are welcome to reconstruct the barcode as vector data, and I'll be happy to add your version here if you send it to me. Hello Phil. You can get the font with “apt-get install ttf-sil-gentium” (or your preferred package manager) in your Ubuntu installation. It is contained in the Universe repository, not installed by default, but has a free license and it is a nice font. There should be no need to replace it with another (unless you want to do that, of course).

About the PNG file: the previous version was actually made with vector rectangles, it was changed to PNG data in this version for convenience; there are command line barcode generators that takes an input text and produces an output PNG file. Changing the encoded text this way is very easy and almost instantaneous, I’ve once used it in a script to generate a few hundred stickers, each one with different encoded text in its barcode.

Anyways, you are welcome to reconstruct the barcode as vector data, and I’ll be happy to add your version here if you send it to me.

]]> By: Phil Cooper http://alone-in-the-light.zenvoid.org/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html/comment-page-1#comment-121 Phil Cooper Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:56:26 +0000 http://zenvoid.org/rgs/wordpress/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html#comment-121 The image contains "Gentium" font, which isn't standard on my Ubuntu 10.04 installation. I'd need to get that font or substitute another similar-looking font to match the appearance seen in the PDF in the package archive. Unless one is interested in changing the text, this would have been better handled by converting all text to paths, making the SVG file independent of any font installations on target computers. The bar code is linked into the SVG vector data as a PNG raster file. It would be better to generate the bar code block as vector data, making the SVG totally self-contained, without need for external raster or font data. The image contains “Gentium” font, which isn’t standard on my Ubuntu 10.04 installation. I’d need to get that font or substitute another similar-looking font to match the appearance seen in the PDF in the package archive. Unless one is interested in changing the text, this would have been better handled by converting all text to paths, making the SVG file independent of any font installations on target computers.

The bar code is linked into the SVG vector data as a PNG raster file. It would be better to generate the bar code block as vector data, making the SVG totally self-contained, without need for external raster or font data.

]]> By: mrn http://alone-in-the-light.zenvoid.org/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html/comment-page-1#comment-47 mrn Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:21:20 +0000 http://zenvoid.org/rgs/wordpress/2009/12/hackers-certificate-of-authenticity.html#comment-47 let me guess: asus ul series ;) let me guess: asus ul series ;)

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