[Kde-games-devel] A vector deck for lskat

[Luciano Montanaro]

On venerdì 01 maggio 2009, you wrote:
> One of the reasons for the pixmap themes was that there were no vector
> decks with german suits for lskat.
>
> I'm trying to get around that; here is what I got at the moment:
>
> http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/card-decks/huncards-full.png
>
> The missing suit is almost ready.
>
> Still missing are the indices (little numbers) in the corner and the
> artwork for aces and court cards. And the "beams" for the leaf and acorn
> suits...
>
> I think that's too much work for me to do as vector graphics, so I'm
> planning to cut pixmaps from the public domain huncards deck. At least for
> the moment.
>
> Is there someone from germany who can give me advice on the deck?
>
> And that aside, could we replace the german skat deck in our repository
> with this, provided I manage to finish it in time?
>

I've finished the deck. At least for now... Designing proper vector court 
cards would take too much time. The preview is at the usual address [1].

The svg file is there too, along with the generator script [2], [3].

I'd like to rename this deck "William Tell", since this style seems to be 
called so among card collectors. But I'm open to other suggestions. 
Maybe it could replace the xskat-german deck we are shipping now. If a closer 
"clone" is wanted, I can adapt the script to do that too, although I'm 
unlikely to have enough time during next week (or during the month of may, for 
that matter). 

So... I could add the style to the repository if it's agreed it's OK.

Eugene, what do you say? As KDEGames everything-graphic (benevolent?) 
dictator, I'm waiting brathlessly for your approval (and please, don't eat my 
brains).
  
[1] http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/card-decks/huncards-full.png
[2] http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/card-decks/huncards-full.svg
[3] http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/card-decks/generate-svg-
huncards.pl

Luciano

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