Hi Jeremy,
thanks for your offer to help :)
Am 05.07.2016 um 12:34 schrieb Jeremy G:
Hi,
Thanks to Sylvain, I saw on an french task list (1) that a clear explanation of the difference between a bitmap/raster file and a vector one was wanted for the website. I also read a part of the conversation on the bug report page (2) (not everything as the discussion is quite long :) ).
- Yes, the main intention was to have an info graphic explaining the differences and to have a short text that accompanies the picture, if needed.
It seems to be a bit difficult, though, to find someone to draw such a graphic for us. Brynn had the idea to make this some sort of contest, or to just ask on social media for someone who could draw up such a thing.
Could you also imagine to help with something like that (I don't mean drawing yourself - unless you want to, but helping to organize this)?
But, as this has already been taking so long, I also wouldn't mind if this just became a nice, concise, easy article, with a few small example pictures.
*Easy* is a key point, because the people who need this explanation usually don't know anything about vector graphics. It should also not be a long read (hence the info graphic idea), but something that you jump to, read, and return to what you've been previously doing (because we would like to point people to it, when they ask a question that shows that the difference isn't clear to them yet).
We've got a list somewhere of the concepts that would need to be explained. I (or Brynn) can forward it to you if you would like to get started with any of this. It's a result of years-long forum experience of answering noob questions ;-)
If it's still on the todo list,
- Yes, we still don't have that kind of thing on our website.
I just wanted to mention that the Mapschool page (3) has a short paragraph that explains the difference between both. As it's licenced under CC0, it could be partly recycled for the Inkscape website.
- The raster part of it is quite strong, but a bit too complex for our needs. The vector part is very short, in comparison, and it's focused on map-making. We could take a few of the phrases as a starting point for our own article.
I'm available to help on this topic, but as I don't really know where to start, a quick heads-up would be appreciated!
- We'd be glad to have some help here. Don't worry if it takes us a bit to respond sometimes, we're all very busy at the moment with a lot of things - but we won't leave you hanging.
(Did you ever work with a website cms?)
Regards, Maren
Best,
Jeremy
(1) https://inkscape.org/fr/contribuer/liste-taches/ (2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1258842 (3) http://www.mapschool.io
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