[plug] Membership Cards was Update :)

[Ben New]

James Devenish wrote:
> Just to be pedantic...the images that are used (e.g. the skyline)...are
> they covered by someone's copyright? If it's a picture that's delcared
> to be in the public domain, or it is a picture for which Ben owns the
> copyright, then there's no problem. But otherwise, it is sort of the
> wrong thing to be doing, no? Also...will there be a greyscale version?

As noted the skyline is from www.perthwa.com.au, straight off the home 
page.  I don't know if that is a live feed or just a static image.  It's 
probably copyright (the site is, at least) so James is right, its 
probalby illegal, possibly even wrong :-)  I mainly used it because I'd 
looked at it the other day so I knew it was there.

So if someone has, or wants to find or create (anyone in South Perth?), 
a non-copyright or PD photo of the Perth skyline, post it up or email it 
to me off-list (ben at leftclick.com.au) and I'll replace it.

Either that or, PLUG being a NPO, maybe someone could kindly ask 
permission (posthumously as it is) from the website owners to "borrow" 
the image.

I take it Tux does not have the same legal problem?

Greyscale can be easily achieved, once the colour version is finalised.

My biggest question is, how are people going to put their names on their 
tags, unless they have sodipodi, or some other compatible SVG editor? 
Possibly we could have some sort of script that just plugs (!) the name 
straight into the SVG file, like a kind of "mail merge" but for SVG 
images..?  Perl would be a goer for this I'd say...

Either that, or just PNG-ise a copy without the [bits in brackets] and 
just have people add their own names / member types in their graphics 
app of choice?  Problem there would be the lack of consistency from name 
tag to name tag if ppl use different fonts or alignments.  Comments?

Thanks also to Kim for your positive feedback :-)


-- 
Ben @ Leftclick
http://www.leftclick.com.au/


P.S. I guess this means I'm going to have to actually turn up next month!

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