Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Webcomic 2.0
As disappointing as it may be, my countdown has ended and it was related to my webcomic... sorry if you had greater expectations :D
Anything that's put on the web is measurable and the measurements for my Fedora webcomic showed unsatisfactory results, so I had two options either to drop it or make it better. Being excessively stubborn, dropping was not an option so the only way remaining was trying to improve, and as I can't improve the humor (as it defines me as a person) I worked on the graphics. So here is today's edition:
![[fedora webcomic 2.0]](http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/twozero.png)
Along with the new graphics, I came with a new process, based on a clipart style, with pre-defined images which can be quickly assembles in a comic strip. I also introduced a new website for the webcomic, showing the latest issues (extracted from my blog) but also a number of goodies: the Romanian translation but, probably more important, what I like to call the cast of characters, a page containing a number of characters I imagined I could use, with full source available as SVG and a short description (this can be improved) and also a lot of images which can and will be used: items, emotions, strip templates (all with the corresponding sources), so anyone can create his own webcomic.
Here is a teaser:
![[fedora webcomic]](http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/webcomics/teaser.png)
All the materials included on this page are free to use, but if you find them useful, pretty please (this is not a requirement, only my humble wish) send an email to dioanad at server gmail.com with thanks for motivating me to publish some content and expressing your unhappiness to the same person for destroying my motivation to publish even more.

4 comments:
I like how i can zoom your svg strip in Firefox and not loose any clarity.
Yup, that's the beauty of using vector graphics (SVG). But there is a downside too - the font is not embedded in the SVG so probably it will not work as intended (or as the PNG) and there are a few glitches in text positioning.
What if you turn the text into paths then?
Slightly bad for screen readers I guess, but it will make the text render better.
Yay for SVG on the web!
- Andreas Nilsson
On top of that, converting to paths will lose the ability to translate and will increase the file size.
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