Localization of TurtleArt

[Alexander Todorov]

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Walter Bender wrote:
> I'm a bit rusty, but you can use the Gimp to do this, using Scheme
> scripts. I did have a bit of trouble with positioning on some RTL
> scripts as the Gimp is using fairly antiquated text rendering
> internally, but it is generally OK.
> 

I will give GIMP a try although I was thinking of ImageMagic and the like.

> -walter
> 
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Alexander Todorov
> <alexx.todorov at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Hello everybody,
>>  I've spent some time thinking about this ticket:
>>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3585
>>
>>  TurtleArt developer(s) have decided to use gif images that represent different
>>  shapes with text inside. What we need is a helper script that will take the
>>  translations from the PO file and apply them on no-text image to produce the
>>  localized image.
>>
>>  <pseudo_code>
>>
>>  helper(base image, text from PO) = localized image
>>
>>  </pseudo_code>
>>
>>  The idea is simple but I still hit some issues. Any help or ideas will be
>>  appreciated.
>>
>>  1) Most of the images have a single word or couple of words next to each other.
>>  Some of them like if-then or if-then-else have text which is not on a single
>>  line. e.g.
>>
>>  if
>>   ----- then
>>
>>
>>  if
>>   ----- then
>>
>>   ----- else
>>
>>  I'm not sure how we can automate that easily without specifying coordinates
>>  where the text should appear. A possible solution is to divide all these strings
>>  into different layers and make the helper/PO aware of them.
>>
Looks like the images already contain the text in separate layers so it will be
easy.

>>  2) There are some "block" images that show all available blocks for the chosen
>>  category. I guess they fall in 1) if we talk about automating their localization.
>>
>>  3) The source files are Photoshop PSD ones. Is that an open format? I don't
>>  really know but still haven't found a tool that can work with them properly
>>  except GIMP. And isn't against OLPC vision to use commercial software to produce
>>   an OLPC activity? I'm willing to implement the helper mentioned above but I'd
>>  prefer some graphics format that I can manipulate easily in code. We can also
>>  upload the base images to git.
>>
>>  4) What will happen with all the localized images? How they will be distributed.
>>  We certainly don't want all other languages hanging around and occupying disk
>>  space when they are not necessary. At present the English ones are 728KB.
>>  Multiply that by 10/20 languages and we're talking about MBs here.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Alexander.
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