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2# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
3# <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
4# can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
5# this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp
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9
10This directory contains various stuff relating to the FreeBSD daemon
11logo "beastie" and graphic profile.
12
13Kirk Mckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> holds the copyright to the
14BSD Daemon and you may need to get his explicit permission before
15you use it. Please see his web-page on the subject:
16 http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html
17
18beastie.fig
19 An Xfig(1) drawing of the 4.3 daemon.
20
21 This rendering of "beastie" was produced by Poul-Henning
22 Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> and is released under the "beerware"
23 license. In addition to beer Poul-Henning collects FreeBSD
24 merchandise ("nudge nudge, wink wink, he said knowingly.")
25
26 In difference from the rasterized renderings of beastie,
27 this vector-based beastie can be rendered in any size and
28 still look great.
29
30beastie.eps
31 Created from the beastie.fig with
32 fig2dev -L eps beastie.fig beastie.eps
33 patch < eps.patch
34 Before committing this, clean out the comment brought
35 over from the .fig file to avoid Dollar-FreeBSD-Dollar junk
36
37beastie.svg
38 Created from beastie.eps using an unholy mix of python code
39 and manual editing.
40
41beastie2.eps
42 Written by Rahul Siddharthan beaste2.eps is a
43 smaller, simpler version of the beastie eps graphic.
44
45eps.patch
46 Add some comments about tweakables in the .eps file and set
47 the linecaps to round to improve visual appearance.
48
49FreeBSD.pfa
50 This is the font used for the "FreeBSD" text on the CDrom
51 products from BSDi / (Walnut Creek). It was originally
52 found on the on the WC/BSDi CDROM "Font Garden" under the
53 name "NRBWelshGillianBold", but the designer of the font,
54
55 Neil Beshoori
56 NRB Systems
57 + 44 1273 581366
58 besh@cix.compulink.co.uk
59
60 has donated a FreeBSD version of the font to us and allowed
61 us to include it in FreeBSD with no strings attached.
62
63poster.sh
64 An example of how to use the stuff above. Outputs a simple
65 FreeBSD poster suitable for A4 paper.
66
67 If you want it in A3 format instead insert the line
68 1.41 dup scale
69 above the "/mm" definition. You can scale it to any
70 other size in similar ways.
71
72
73If you want a GIF with transparent background:
74
75 fig2dev -L gif -g '#f0f0f0' -t '#f0f0f0' beastie.fig beastie.gif
76
77If you want a PNG file:
78
79 fig2dev -L png beastie.fig beastie.png
80
81enjoy
82
83/Poul-Henning
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