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From: call...@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux Logo
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Date: 12 Aug 92 01:12:36 GMT
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Well, someone axed why we don't gots one, so done drawed one.
It's not a really catchy logo; it's rather simple, in fact, but then, linux
is actually like that. It doesn't hit you between the eyes with bells and
whistles: it just sort of sneaks up on you, and stuns you with its..its..
come on, guys, what's the word I'm looking for here?
Anyhow, it's a fairly large PostScript file (200+KB tarred and compressed)
so I imagine it would be a bad idea to post it. ;-)
Basically, it's an equilateral triangle (pointing downward) with a gradient
fill (linear fill; from blue at the bottom to white at the top). About halfway
down the triangle is a 10pt. red line, with LINUX written above it in
Oblique Times font. The L is 72-point; the INUX is 48-point, and sits back
inside the L (well, the I and half of the N do). The L is a drop-cap, with
the base of the L below the line (the INUX is, as mentioned before, above
the line), and, even with the base of the L is RELEASE 0.97 (also in
Oblique Times, but all in 18 point pitch). Obviously, the 0.97 changes
with the release...
My description doesn't explain it very well; you really need to see it to
understand what I'm talking about. So I'll put it on tsx-11 (if Ted'll let
me...) ASAP (probably tomorrow (Wednesday)).
Comments are welcome; criticism...well, be nice... :-)
James
James P. Callison Microcomputer Coordinator OU Law Library
Call...@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu /\ Callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor
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DISCLAIMER: I'm not an engineer, but I play one at work...
Here's to all the soldiers who have ever died in vain,
The insane locked up in themselves, the homeless down on Main
To those who stand on empty shores, and spit against the wind
And those who wait forever for ships that don't come in
--Joe Diffee, "Ships That Don't Come In"
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From: call...@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Logo
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Date: 12 Aug 92 03:10:02 GMT
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Well, it's not _quite_ Wednesday here, but I managed to get the thing
uploaded to tsx-11. Download it, print it out, tell me what you think.
BTW- The logo is in PostScript format, and is in the file linlogPS.tar.Z
but I don't know for certain where it will wind up on tsx-11.
James
James P. Callison Microcomputer Coordinator OU Law Library
Call...@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu /\ Callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor
constellation!biglaw!call...@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an engineer, but I play one at work...
Here's to all the soldiers who have ever died in vain,
The insane locked up in themselves, the homeless down on Main
To those who stand on empty shores, and spit against the wind
And those who wait forever for ships that don't come in
--Joe Diffee, "Ships That Don't Come In"
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From: ty...@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Linux Logo
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:28:54 GMT
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From: call...@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Date: 12 Aug 92 03:10:02 GMT
Well, it's not _quite_ Wednesday here, but I managed to get the thing
uploaded to tsx-11. Download it, print it out, tell me what you think.
BTW- The logo is in PostScript format, and is in the file linlogPS.tar.Z
but I don't know for certain where it will wind up on tsx-11.
Well, I've made it available as ~ftp/pub/linux/postscript/linux-1.ps,
and despite having frobbed with it a bit, I can't get it to print.
However, I did manage to get one postscript previewer (out of three that
I tried) to preview it.
Perhaps someone who knows postscript would be willing to redo the logo
in raw postscript, instead of Aldus Freehand? That would be a lot more
portable, not to mention faster to image.....
- Ted
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From: cory...@rice.edu (Cory West)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Logo
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Date: 12 Aug 1992 22:15:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:28:54 GMT
In article <1992Aug12....@athena.mit.edu> ty...@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
(Theodore Ts'o) writes:
> Well, I've made it available as ~ftp/pub/linux/postscript/linux-1.ps,
> and despite having frobbed with it a bit, I can't get it to print.
> However, I did manage to get one postscript previewer (out of three that
> I tried) to preview it.
Ghostscript pulled it up fine for me and I like it! I don't
like having the Version number in becuase it means we'll have to update
the logo every Saturday :-), but other than that it's cool and I'd
love to see it included in manuals and the such :-).
Cory
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From: er...@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Logo
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Date: 12 Aug 92 23:07:39 GMT
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In article <CORYWEST.92...@rio-grande.rice.edu> cory...@rice.edu (Cory West) writes:
> Ghostscript pulled it up fine for me and I like it! I don't
>like having the Version number in becuase it means we'll have to update
>the logo every Saturday :-), but other than that it's cool and I'd
>love to see it included in manuals and the such :-).
Well ghostscript barfs when I try it. Is there some secret??
I am using gs on a SVr4 machine, since I do not yet have gs on my linux
machine.
-Eric
Here is the mess that gs left:
bash$ gs linux-1.ps
Initializing... done.
Error: /typecheck in --and--
Operand stack:
-savetype- true false 55665
Execution stack:
operator_804c220 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
337/401 4/200
Ghostscript 2.3 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 Aladdin Enterprises,
Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
GS<4>
--
Eric Youngdale
er...@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil