Re: Maps

[Brian Pennington <cellophanesky@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 10:31  PM, katyrnyn wrote:
>     Or with Postscript files?  Perhaps that is why Andrwe is using it?  
> I don't know enough about Postscript, so I'll stop speculating here.  
> Though I wil wager a guess that the PS in EPS stands for PostScript?
	Postscript is actually a cross-printer standard developed by Adobe 
to keep things looking more uniform across the board. EPS was also 
designed by Adobe but I'm pretty sure they are completely unrelated, as 
if you're sending something to print, editing it is about the last 
priority you could come up with. I don't know anything about Postscript 
files, I've never heard of such a thing. Postscript is usually in 
reference to whether a printer has the technology or not, and whether a 
font is designed for postscript display. PDFs are quite capable of 
handling any image format and quite uneditable unfortunately. Oh! I 
*believe* EPS stands for "Editable PhotoShop," but I'm not 100% sure.

	Also, I'm having trouble finding the map on the website.


>     As I still can't read GIF formats in my port of the GIMP, I instead 
> used a JPEG, though it was at 0% compression.... (aside from the base 
> JPEG compression).  Once again, I suspect this has something to do with 
> the hundreds of thousands of silly little Linux formats that Andrew is 
> releasing his game under.  :)
	Most people probably think of GIFs as super out of date, but the 
GIF format still produces far more attractive results if you're dealing 
with something that has less than 256 colors (i.e. line art like a hand 
drawn map) because its compression is lossless. In other words, the only 
thing the compression messes with is the colors, so if you have less 
than 256 you're in the clear. JPEG, on the other hand, creates little 
squiggles known as artifacts all throughout your images, more depending 
on how high the compression is set.


>     So, aside from Mad-eira being spelled incorrectly, (and the spacing 
> issue with the two continenets, etc) is there any thing else that is 
> migging or wrong?  I know of the Canyon of the Moon - it kinda got 
> omitted at the last minute.  I was going to have it, then I revised the 
> landscape around Tamaril, and it just didn't come back....
	My home!

>   Actually, 2133 never had a system for losing limbs.  You're thinking 
> of my first attempt, which was a near future setting.  That was like, 
> 4th grade.
	Oh you're right, I forget what that old game was called. I only 
remembered the name of 2133 from those old games. Anyway it was fun, who 
cares if losing limbs is unrealistic when you're in 4th grade?

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