The Scroll of Scripts

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The Scroll of Scripts

Postby Interchangeable » Fri May 25, 2012 4:38 am

I'm fascinated by phonetics, writing, and languages in general. So I decided to create a showcase of all the writing systems of the world. I ran into some problems in exporting it, but I solved them thanks to this forum. And this is the result: the Scroll of Scripts. (It won't display for some reason, so just open it in a new tab to see it.)
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The text is from Genesis 1, New Living Translation, translated into various languages. The ten scripts and the languages in which the text is written, in order, are Latin (Latin), Cyrillic (Bulgarian), Greek (Greek), Arabic (Arabic), Han (Traditional Chinese), Hangul (Korean), Armenian (Armenian), Georgian (Georgian), Devanagari (Hindi), and Hebrew (Hebrew). I used Google Translate for the translations, so if you speak one of those languages you are welcome to submit a correction. The black header text is set in Georgia. Most of the body text is set in Arial Unicode Ms, except the Armenian segment, which is in Tahoma.
The Scroll of Scripts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. You are free to share it noncommercially, as long as you credit me and do not modify it.
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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby brynn » Fri May 25, 2012 1:49 pm

Oh, is this that 77,000 px image?? Awesome!

But is it finished? When I look at it, somewhere between Armenian and Georgian, the large text stops. It continues to show the small black text, all the way to the end. But the large text colored with a gradient, doesn't.

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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby Interchangeable » Sat May 26, 2012 10:01 am

Yes, it is finished. But I don't know why that's happening. When I view it, on multiple computers, there's no problem; the text goes all the way to its end at Hebrew as I intended. Perhaps it's a browser or computer problem? I use Google Chrome on Windows 7.

I think it's now 96 000 pixels wide, actually; when I discovered that there was no limit I increased the font size so that if you zoom in you can take it to the whole height of the screen.

EDIT: if you look at the source code of the page, you can see it's actually 59626 pixels wide. And it's also interesting to take a look at the rest of the source code, too - it's 9508 lines long! Half of it is this, where x is some number:
<linearGradient
inkscape:collect="always"
xlink:href="#linearGradientx"
id="linearGradientx"
gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse"
x1="x"
y1="x"
x2="x"
y2="x" />
And the other half is the points for all the letters, like this:
<path
d="m bunch of numbers z"
id="pathx"
inkscape:connector-curvature="0" />
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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby Xav » Sat May 26, 2012 8:05 pm

On my Ubuntu machine running Firefox (12.0, I think) I see a gap at Armenian/Georgian area with some of the glyphs appearing cut off, but after that it returns to normal and I can see both the large and small text right to the end.

It's a great idea/project thought :D
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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby Interchangeable » Sun May 27, 2012 2:41 am

Go full screen and zoom in so the letters take up the full height of the screen. Then click your middle mouse wheel and scroll right until you reach the end. Don't try to derive meaning from the writing; that's not the point of the Scroll. The idea is to see the beauty in other ways of expressing speech besides our familiar Latin alphabet.

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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby brynn » Sun May 27, 2012 1:51 pm

Oh, well I was looking at it, at it's host site (imgh.us). I'm on current Firefox. I've tried going to full screen, but my mouse, which is not a traditional mouse, but a Cirque touchpad mouse, stops zooming when the text is covering about half the page, or maybe a little more. (I have some concerns about the touchpad mouse zoom feature compared to a traditional mouse, in Inkscape, certain features that use a mouse zoom don't work right for me.)(But it shouldn't affect a webpage.) If I don't use full screen, I can use a FF zoom add-on and get to 300% (text doesn't quite fill screen, but close).

When it's zoomed in as far as I can go, the text stops showing up just before Hangul. If I zoom out all the way, the large text still stops between Aremenian and Georgian. I haven't tested to find out the zoom level where the amount of visible text changes, but I guess I could, if it matters. I'm sure it would look fine, if I opened in Inkscape, but again, I could test if it would help :D

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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby Interchangeable » Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:49 am

I am referring to its image page. It appears just as I uploaded it on the image page when I view it, on multiple computers.

I may have a clue: I just opened the document with Adobe Illustrator, and noticed that right at the Armenian/Georgian area the default page size no longer accommodates the drawing. It falls off the other side of the page somewhere around Han/Hangul; only part of Hangul, all of Armenian and a few characters of Georgian are actually in the drawing area. Does this help?

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Re: The Scroll of Scripts

Postby brynn » Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:36 pm

It doesn't help me. Someone else may understand the significance of that. Do you mean the Inkscape page border, or the AI page border?

My understanding is that parts of the image that fall outside the page border, might not show up (even if page borders are hidden) depending on where/how the image is used. If you had for example, exported a PNG, it would've exported the whole thing. But since it's an SVG, I would guess that the page border is probably what's causing this.

I would guess that if you made the page size match the image, the problem would go away. But that's up to you. I seem to be in the minority with this problem.


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