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unsigned comment added by
XFEM Skier (
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21:13, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Hey, that sounds good, thanks. I'll wait and see if
Maproom shows up maybe later, I don't know if he'll be notified or anything because I'm still not very used to the system. In any case that he is, I'll be off and on tonight, as I've homework to do, but even so I'll be on here in between in a matter to discuss the topic onward. — Preceding
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96.241.181.22 (
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21:57, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
I was notified, kind of, because I have put this page on my "watch list". This means that when anyone makes any edit to this page or to your user page, I will become aware of it when I look at my watch list, which I do fairly often.
I accept
XFEM Skier's warning about copyright infringement.
Yes, you can download the SVG and use Inkscape, which is free, to do the conversion. You can also use Wikipedia in the way I have shown to do the conversion. I hope you now understand how. I imagine that Wikipedia doesn't exactly approve of its resources being used in this way; but unless you write a script to do this with thousands of images, I don't think anyone will mind.
Maproom (
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22:11, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Yes, I understand now, I tried the Wikipedia process and will try the Inkscape process later tonight possibly. Thank you so much, everyone for the help, especially Maproom. I'm glad to know more and more about how this fascinating expansive site works as time goes on.
NASCARFAN160 (
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22:13, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
I have replaced the Florida image on this page by one with no copyright restrictions, for the sake of Wikipedia rules and the US copyright office.
Maproom (
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22:28, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
I don't think there is a limit to how large you can make it. I just previewed it at 4000px and it worked. SVG is a vector format so there is no limit to how much you can expand the image. That does require that image original source was a vector image as well.
XFEM Skier (
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22:56, 11 November 2013 (UTC)reply
OK. I did not check the actual size of the image I just saw that it rendered. Also I converted an svg made from a pdf (both vector) to an png in Inkscape and also in Gimp (another free image software). In my experience both softwares have good help online through search.
XFEM Skier (
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02:51, 12 November 2013 (UTC)reply