Felipe Sanches wrote:
Today I was wondering about how to make the about screen more easily translatable. I figured out that the main problem is that text and effects applied to it are stored as curves. Maybe if we could use raw text and apply filters to it, then translators would have an easier task. This made me try to implement the mirrored reflex effect that we can see in the 0.45 about screen using filters. This is what I came up with:
There is a solid reason to transform text to paths: font availability. Is is a decision the designer has to make and live with it: either use a font universally available (there is such a thing? does look not boring?) or convert text to paths and lose the ability to translate. Is a lose-lose situation.
This also brings to discussion the general question about tools to make easily translatable drawings using SVG.
Here is an awesome writing about this (and cool graphics too) from Andy: http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/45