Re: The long-awaited BGS marker sample page has arrived.


Andrew Tompkins wrote:
My Land of Misery wrote:
Michael Moroney wrote:
"My Land of Misery" <grvan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Chris Wilson wrote:
- The JPEG's in paint create messy objects that screw up the
pictures. I would recommend PNG's.

When I get a better photo program (like GIMP or another
recommended program) I'll rework them. I'm not sure my laptop at
home supports PNG. The originals I used were adapted from GIF,
but GIF in color looks quite rough (hence a recent map
replacement). GIF is adequate on standard black-and-white like
what James Lin used on his samples.

GIF is better than JPG for images with large regions of a solid
color, cartoonlike pictures or drawings with few colors. Like
graphics (not photos) of route shields. GIFs are limited to 256
colors. Jpegs create artifacts which create odd details in solid
color areas. Great for photos. PNGs have the best of both
worlds, and it's best if you keep all your work in this format and
convert to GIF or JPG only as the last step (if necessary).

I'll check my software...some of my pic's were done in AutoCAD LT
(best example is the I-99 pork shield) to see about export to GIF
or PNG (the graphic for that is in jpg).

My maps are in JPG because GIF looked like a checkerboard. The ones
done off the DeLorme software will get more work to make the shields
clearer (the ones in that software, especially Interstate, lose
clarity). Photos are in JPG due to my camera software.


I have a feeling that the main problem with the display of your maps,
pictures and figures is that you are using the 'width' and 'height'
HTML attributes to size the pictures. When you do this, it tends to
just remove rows and columns of pixels to meet the size specified
leading to the grungy(sp?) look to them during display. Once you get
a decent graphics program, use the resize function on that to size
your pictures as needed and use those files on the website (keep the
originals on your HD in case you need to make changes).

"snip for ease of use"
--Andy
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Andrew G. Tompkins
Software Engineer
Beaverton, OR
http://home.comcast.net/~andytom/Highways
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What had actually happened was that the original pages were composed in
Word 97. I still have the old .doc files that were simply converted to
HTML format, thus automatically assigning border sizes. I'll revamp
the pages as I get the chance and likely resize the maps and photos to
as close to original size as practical.

BTW...the sign graphics are fixed...the signs and marker samples are
now in .png (gif still looks nasty). The only jpg files left are the
photos and one distance sign on the Shuster page (will fix either
tonight or tomorrow).

.

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