[R-390] Meter Faces on eBay - Update

[Barry]

I agree.  There's a program floating around the internet called simply
"Meter".  It allows you to make a very detailed image of whatever kind of
meter face you want.  I don't know what image type it creates, but hopefully
it will have sufficient resolution such that any pixellations aren't
noticed.

One of these days...

Barry - N4BUQ


>  if these had been high-quality images on some of the better
> "sticker" media I've heard about.

Not that I have anything against those who make high-resolution
raster scans of dials, meter faces, etc., for others to use, but
for the ultimate quality these graphics ought to be presented
in a vector rather than bitmap format.  That way you get full
resolution out of whatever media they finally get printed on.

Good vector formats (including PDF, which also supports
raster images) have no problem at all doing arcs, putting
text along a curved baseline, etc.  And it looks wonderful
no matter what resolution you zoom in to, there's no pixellation
in the "vector original" at all.

At my day job I've done some SVG (scalable vector graphics) that looks
wonderful at any zoom level.

If I ever get around to making my own artwork for some as-of-yet
hypothetical R-390A meters I'll do it as vector PDF files and
let everybody here know :-).

Tim.
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