New (iPod 5G) theme: Pen&Paper

[gwrtheyrn]

i'd really welcome a font with more glyphs too, if i had a nice handwriting i'd consider converting it to a rockbox font

but i don't... if someone finds a suitable font that supports strange characters i'd appreciate it.

pen&paper is an awesome theme, thank you for making it!

edit: i'll look for a font tonight, perhaps i can find one...

[P.Opus]

I'm almost finished with an E200 port of this fine theme.

I am just awaiting permission to post it for release.  

The cute Icons set, that was initially developed on the I Pod and Gigabeat versions is not included, as I could not properly resize the icons, and all my editing programs would not properly work with the translucent channel  (It actually showed up as pink).  My inability to resize any of the transperancy .bmps also prevented the little stick guy from waving when the music is paused, so instead we have a simple static stick figure in the WPS screen.  

Also due to the size restrictions of the Sansa screen, the shrinking of the Icons required to be used with the 8 point font caused them to lose a lot of their charm, so the original Rockbox Icons actually work better here.

The size of the Sansa screen does make it a little harder to read than the wider I-Pod and Gigabeat versions.  The 8bit version of the Font is a lot less readable than the original 12 point version, but it's still pretty good.

While I would not use this Theme as my regular theme (cabbie is much more friendly to my 40+ year old eyes) , it's unique nature is where it's charm lies, and those who don't regularly use reading glasses should be able to use it.

This is the first theme conversion I had done, and I hope I did it some justice.  

I plan on tweaking a second version to make it more legible on the Sansa, and hope to be able to use the 9 or 10 point version of the font for version two.

[LinusN]

The cute Icons set, that was initially developed on the I Pod and Gigabeat versions is not included, as I could not properly resize the icons, and all my editing programs would not properly work with the translucent channel  (It actually showed up as pink).

That is how transparency is implemented in Rockbox. The pink color is the transparent "marker".

[pondlife]

Anyone got enough spare time to port this to the H300 (and hence iPod Color/Photo)?  I know I haven't :/

pondlife

[P.Opus]

That is how transparency is implemented in Rockbox. The pink color is the transparent "marker".

Thanks, Linus.

That's exactly what I expect, but when I try to resize it using my basic editors, (paint and GIMP), it seems that it now saves that color as part of the bitmap.  

When I run the simulator, the pink comes through.

I'll try resizing the iconset again and place it on the player and see how that works.  Perhaps the simulator is not reading the transperancy marker correctly.

As I said before, this is my first real attempt to port over a theme.  The only thing's I've done in the past is use WPS tags to modify information on another persons theme, or use a different font, and adjust the WPS for it to fit.

This is my first attempt to actually resize all of the .bmp's and take a known working port of another player and convert it.

I appreciate all your feedback.

[GodEater]

What's happening there is usually that the resize is dithering the colour at the edge of another part of the image - which throws the exact value of the colour that Rockbox sees as "transparent" off by a few bits, and then you see the pink come through. You'll need to go through pixel by pixel and change it to the correct value.

[psycho_maniac]

P.Opus: Have you uploaded this theme to the wiki yet or are you not happy with it yet?

[sammienator]

Hey, I'm making an iPod Nano port... (Edit: Almost finished, except of the icons, some are still pink )

Sam

Edit: Maye a bug: when you are playing a song and than rewind and than suddenly fastforward it still shows the rewind image,
when you pause, the same happens the other way around.

[P.Opus]

P.Opus: Have you uploaded this theme to the wiki yet or are you not happy with it yet?

I am currently getting permission.  The original author for the I-pod suggested I use the photoshop sources as a base.  I resized the Gigabit version and i'm not fully happy with the results.  So I think I'll use the sources and make sure it really looks nice before I pop it up there.

[pixelma]

What's happening there is usually that the resize is dithering the colour at the edge of another part of the image - which throws the exact value of the colour that Rockbox sees as "transparent" off by a few bits, and then you see the pink come through. You'll need to go through pixel by pixel and change it to the correct value.

Most likely it's the "anti-aliasing" that happens at the edges that give you near but not exactly pink values which in turn will be visible. Depending on the graphic program, there might be an option to turn anti-aliasing off when resizing but it won't look so smooth then. You probably need to clean it up a bit afterwards but maybe not pixel by pixel.

[sammienator]

Hey, I'm almost finished with the iPod Nano 1G port, the icons are not pink anymore :


Pen&Paper WPS for iPod Nano


Pen&Paper Theme for iPod Nano

Only the font should be changed...
Where do I've to get permission to upload the WPS to the Wiki?

Sam

[jswetzen]

sammienator: You have my permission to post it to the Wiki or rockbox-themes.org, as long as you redistribute it under the same license (Creative Commons by-sa license) as the original theme. It looks good, except maybe for the pink showing up on the stick figure's arm.  

[sammienator]

sammienator: You have my permission to post it to the Wiki or rockbox-themes.org, as long as you redistribute it under the same license (Creative Commons by-sa license) as the original theme. It looks good, except maybe for the pink showing up on the stick figure's arm. 

Thank you I'll upload it under the same licence. I fixed the pink arm, but I didn't make a new screen dump...
What do you think about the font? I resized the original font (Matttsro) to size 7, but it looked ugly I think the current one (Nimbus-12) is good enough.

Edit: Uploading on rockbox-themes.org is currently down... Can I put it here until rockbox-themes.org is fixed?

[jvhc]

Would it be easy to whack a clock on it too?

[sammienator]

Would it be easy to whack a clock on it too?

Do you mean a real clock or a drawn one?