[Tikzdevice-bugs] R logo

[Tobias Wolf]

On Do, 2009-09-03 at 10:00 -0600, Cameron Bracken wrote:
> Thanks!  Looks Great. I am interested, did you do this by hand or use
> some program that could read SVG and write TikZ? 

I traced one of these: http://developer.r-project.org/Logo/
by hand in Inkscape. The edges were too fuzzy for autotracing.
Then I scaled to 96x72px (1 inch high in 72 dpi and 1 inch wide in 96
dpi) and quantized the nodes to integer coordinates (by hand).
I didn’t attempt to imitate the faux-3D bevel. It may be possible with
SVG filters, but it looks tacky and 90s-like to me.

You can go from Inkscape to tikZ using
http://code.google.com/p/inkscape2tikz/

The output looked alright to me.

--Tobias