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These look neat!
By the way, I'm dying to know, can I ask where you found the SVG for the FreeBSD logo?
I searched for it once but came up short, their official trademark page gave some downloads, but no SVG, instead there was an Illustrator file I believe, so... I had a friend of mine use his own Illustrator to convert it to SVG for me, haha. And yet the SVG was utterly broken so I had carefully gone over it to manually match the colors to the original again and get rid of several unnecessary (?) vector paths
It's right on their website: https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/about-the-foundation/project/
Yes, that's what I was referring to, there is no SVG file in the archive, or did I miss it somewhere?
No, you didn't miss anything. the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files are also vector files. Inkscape just doesn't like to to open them, so I had to use a program on my Mac to convert them to SVG
I believe that I used Graphic to convert them to SVG, if I remember correctly. I was a Mac user before switching to Linux, so I had already purchased the software.
Ah that explains it, lucky!
Weird they still haven't made a clean SVG for the rest of us peasants, but at least there are good souls like you to convert them for us :)
Actually, it was Affinity Designer that I used, as I just had to convert the NetBSD logo from EPS. I’m sure that there’s a Linux app that can do it, I just haven’t looked