I have not had any feedback from
linuxpusher so I contacted
ScotGold, who printed some self-adhesive laptop/case labels for me on the same day. Here's a photo of a Sabayon Linux label on one of my laptops:
The design is basically the same as the one I posted earlier except for the "Powered by" at the top, which I made slightly bigger and centred it.
If I were getting any more labels printed I would change the colour of the "Powered by" to white, as the red text does not show up as well as the white text in bright light. The labels produced by ScotGold have a very slightly dimpled matt finish and do not show up well in bright light but look OK in diffuse light.
If you want to buy one of these labels for your laptop or PC case then you can contact ScotGold via their Web site:
http://www.scotgold.com/ (See their Contact page, and ask them about laptop/PC labels for Sabayon Linux). Their price is very reasonable and they can ship labels all over the world. I bought ten labels as they were so cheap.
In order to print laptop/case labels, ScotGold asked me to produce a CMYK JPG file in the actual size at 600 dpi.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I used Inkscape to create an SVG file with the label image.
My first hurdle was to use the correct SL logo and font. On the
Press Documentation page there are links to the SVG file of the SL logo and to the two TrueType font (TTF) files. I downloaded the logo SVG file, which needs the AnimalTracks font to be installed on the PC in order to be viewed correctly in Inkscape. I installed the two TTF fonts in SL 5.0 as follows:
1. I saved the .ttf font files in a directory of my choice: I created a directory /usr/share/fonts/Sabayon-fonts/
2. I installed the "ttmkfdir" utility using the package manager (Portage in my case, but it's also in Entropy).
3. I entered the following commands as root user:
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# cd /usr/share/fonts/Sabayon-fonts/
# ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir
# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
# fc-cache -fv
(There is no font path specified in my xorg.conf file, which does not matter.)
4. I logged out and back in again, to restart the X Server.
I aimed for a label size of 1.8 cm wide by 2.54 cm high, which is the approximate size of many laptop/case labels. According to Inkscape, my SVG image is 1.819 cm wide x 2.540 high. I then selected
File > Export Bitmap... in Inkscape in order to create an RGB PNG file with a bitmap size of 430 pixels wide and 600 pixels high at 600.00 dpi. Once I had created an RGB PNG file, I needed to create a CMYK JPG file. To do that I used the
convert command from the excellent ImageMagick suite of command line tools:
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$ identify -verbose label.png | grep Colorspace
Colorspace: RGB
$ convert -colorspace CMYK label.png label.jpg
Using ImageMagick's
identify command I could check that the properties of the JPG file were correct before e-mailing it to ScotGold:
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$ identify -verbose label.jpg
Image: label.jpg
Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 430x600+0+0
Resolution: 236x236
Print size: 1.82203x2.54237
Units: PixelsPerCentimeter
Type: ColorSeparation
Endianess: Undefined
Colorspace: CMYK
Depth: 8-bit
Channel depth:
cyan: 8-bit
magenta: 8-bit
yellow: 8-bit
black: 8-bit
Channel statistics:
cyan:
min: 0 (0)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 46.3837 (0.181897)
standard deviation: 98.1106 (0.384747)
kurtosis: 0.721652
skewness: 1.64855
magenta:
min: 0 (0)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 19.066 (0.0747685)
standard deviation: 44.4851 (0.174452)
kurtosis: 12.0386
skewness: 3.1321
yellow:
min: 0 (0)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 4.71513 (0.0184907)
standard deviation: 34.1363 (0.133868)
kurtosis: 49.1617
skewness: 7.15051
black:
min: 0 (0)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 220.884 (0.866211)
standard deviation: 68.2378 (0.267599)
kurtosis: 4.9724
skewness: -2.48089
Image statistics:
Overall:
min: 0 (0)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 58.2097 (0.228273)
standard deviation: 101.795 (0.399197)
kurtosis: -0.271803
skewness: 1.27663
Total ink density: 300%
Rendering intent: Undefined
Interlace: None
Background color: white
Border color: cmyk(223,223,223,0)
Matte color: grey74
Transparent color: black
Compose: Over
Page geometry: 430x600+0+0
Dispose: Undefined
Iterations: 0
Compression: JPEG
Quality: 92
Orientation: Undefined
Properties:
date:create: 2009-12-03T11:42:33+00:00
date:modify: 2009-12-03T11:42:33+00:00
jpeg:colorspace: 4
jpeg:sampling-factor: 1x1,1x1,1x1,1x1
signature: 631db0d13619d09c95da09ba4e6a413f4e4862d54f9ffcbb0d1ad645243f39d9
Artifacts:
verbose: true
Tainted: False
Filesize: 81.6KiB
Number pixels: 252KiB
Pixels per second: 24.6MiB
User time: 0.010u
Elapsed time: 0:01.010
Version: ImageMagick 6.5.7-0 2009-11-24 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org
The most difficult part for me was using Inkscape, as I had never used it before. It's not that difficult to use really, but it took me an hour to produce an image that I was satisfied with.
Anyway, I hope you like the result and affix one of these labels to your laptop or PC case to show off to everyone that your machine is "powered by Sabayon Linux"!
