Notes on making non-en versions of the images with the same look as the en ones
Fonts and adjustments:
The en images use artificially-compressed versions of Helvetica;
the ratio of the compression is not consistent among different images
koha.gif Adobe Helvetica Bold 12px 82%
Century Sclbk L Bold 15px [substitute; correct font not found]
Century Sclbk L Italic 15px [substitute; correct font not found]
heading-* Adobe Helvetica 24px 84%
inside-* Adobe Helvetica 26px 88.29%
menu-* Adobe Helvetica Bold 14px 81.58%
[Must resize the *canvas* & leave 12px margin-right]
search-button Adobe Helvetica 24px 82%
Adobe Helvetica 18px 91%
For other images, to determine the ratio of the artificial compression:
- Guess the correct font (guess Helvetica for sans-serif)
- Using the text tool, type the English text
- Guess the font size, repeating guess until the text you type is the same
height as the original English text
- Measure the width of the original English text
- Using the transform tool, determine the width of the text you typed
- Based on the above 2 measurements, determine the ratio of the artificial
compression
- Delete the English text you typed, and replace it with a translation
- Using the transform tool, artificially compress your translated text
- Write down the information you find (font name, variant, and ratio of
compression) in the layer name and perhaps also here
To create the gif files:
- If there are supposed to be transparent areas, but need to use a solid
background to prevent colour problems with converting to index mode:
- Flatten image
- Select all, Copy
- Add alpha channel, Add layer mask
- Paste (in layer mask), Anchor layer
- Image|Color|Invert
- Image|Color|Threshold| 1-255
- Apply layer mask
- Save as gif
- If there are no trasparent areas:
- Flatten image
- Save as .gif
- If there are transparent areas:
- Merge visible layers
- Delete all invisible layers (to avoid problems converting to index mode)
- Save as gif
