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Re: [shogivar] Making a taikyoku shogi set

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew R La Vallee <melmelmarms@...> writes:

Matthew> would suggest downloading the free/share ware program
Matthew> Inkscape (google the name- I think it's at inkscape.net)
Matthew> With Inkscape, you should be able to convert the small
Matthew> and blurry bitmap kanji images from the either pages into
Matthew> .svg format. This will likely be quite time-consuming. If
Matthew> you can do it, you could then replicate them in any size.

My wife (she's Chinese) has just done just that for Chu, for my new
Chu Shogi computer program.

I'm not convinced they are wonderful quality (but do they scale, so I
can resize my board to any dimensions, and they still look to be the
same quality).

Perhaps we could compare efforts?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire



Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:25 pm

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The christmas breaks are always fun, and with it oft comes new diversions and paths in life. One such was opened to me recently in the lovely game known as...
Daniel
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Dec 26, 2008
11:34 pm

Have you looked at the file section of this group? There is quite a bit of info on Taikyoku shogi there....
John Lawson
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Dec 28, 2008
9:51 pm

Good luck with that endeavor. I personally have never tried playing anything larger than dai shogi and the 15x15 board was plenty big enough for me. Have you...
Ed Holzman
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Dec 29, 2008
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I have not been working on creating a kanji set for taikyoku shogi, but I have been working on a printable "international" icon set for modern shogi and shogi...
Matthew R. La Vallee
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Dec 29, 2008
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... Matthew> would suggest downloading the free/share ware program Matthew> Inkscape (google the name- I think it's at inkscape.net) Matthew> With Inkscape,...
Colin Paul Adams
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Dec 29, 2008
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Just curious... are the characters used for the pieces too uncommon to be available in, eg, a shift-JIS scalable font? Mike...
Mike Blackwell
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Dec 29, 2008
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... Mike> Just curious... are the characters used for the pieces too Mike> uncommon to be available in, eg, a shift-JIS scalable font? I don't know. That would...
Colin Paul Adams
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Dec 29, 2008
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Colin, It has taken me FAR to long to respond to this letter. I just rediscovered it! But, yes, we should compare results, should you still, after all of this...
Matthew La Vallee
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... Matthew> Colin, It has taken me FAR to long to respond to this Matthew> letter. I just rediscovered it! But, yes, we should Matthew> compare results,...
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Hi Colin, Yes! By all means, please send them to me when you have a moment. Say, here's an esoteric request: do you happen to know where I might find some...
Matthew La Vallee
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... Matthew> Hi Colin, Yes! By all means, please send them to me when Matthew> you have a moment. Say, here's an esoteric request: do Matthew> you happen to...
Colin Paul Adams
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... Hi Colin, Archive - Feb 4 thru 6, 2000 :) I was just looking at them a couple days ago. Laterz, Phoenix (aka tkr101010)...
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