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Hello there:

I just wanted to say "thank you" for your efforts in creating the vector images of various gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt. I ended up using several in the reconstruction I put together of the original stele that the Rosetta Stone was originally part of. You can see the image on Wikimedia Commons at: if interested.

I also have a question for you: I used Adobe Illustrator to do the work, and when I tried exporting the image to SVG, I got an error message from WMC saying that the MIME type did not match the file, with the result that it was not uploaded. In the end I exported it as a JPG instead, but would still prefer to upload an exported vector graphic. Any suggestions?

Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Saw that you worked in Inkscape, and tried exporting the image through that instead. I did some additional tweaks and everything looked fine in Inkscape, but the end result uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is less than perfect (see: ). Any chance you can lend some help in this area? Captmondo (talk) 16:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, I think I see the problem. Nice work by the way, and glad to see my drawings are getting used! It looks like the slashes in the drawing, to indicate lost or defaced text, are entered as text characters. This means that when they are rendered by various browsers or other software programs, the default fonts/sizes may be used instead of the font you have on your computer. This behavior would have the advantage of lower file size and normally might not be a problem, but the disadvantage in your case is that you don't get reproducible output. Converting the text to paths would probably solve this problem but the file may be very big. Let me take a look at a few things. Also, when saving between illustrator and inkscape I have had a few problems like you mention. One thing that helps is to save as plain SVG. Also, cleaning the defs in inkscape may help. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

It looks like the file size should not be a problem if the text is converted to paths, so that would be the way to go. A few other things that could improve the drawing: The wings at the top is a bitmap image with a white rather than transparent background. Since you have illustrator I assume you have photoshop; the white bg is easily removed in photoshop by selecting the white pixels and erasing, leaving the black lines with transparent bg. I originally drew the Egyptian god images in color quite a while ago, when I didn't know as much about vector drawing as I do now, so converting them to line drawings is somewhat problematic. I created the image at right by changing the fill colors to white and black strokes, but that can't be applied to all of the image elements because in some cases it is the strokes which create a fill color. And even then, the image isn't transparent. I would like to have good line drawings with transparent bg but I think I might have to do a lot of tweaking. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 18:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! I am currently busy at the moment defending the Rosetta Stone FA nomination, but when the dust settles I'd like to properly fix the SVG in the way you suggest. Will let you know of any progress I make. Cheers, and thanks again! Captmondo (talk) 01:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Any interest in peer reviewing the Rosetta Stone article?

Hello there:

Another user and I have been working extensively on the Rosetta Stone article. It has undergone extensive revisions in the past month and I am looking for potential reviewers who can ensure that it will be able to pass Feature Article review. Since you have been active in the past on articles having to do with Ancient Egypt, I thought I should call on you to give it a once over.

Hope you can help. Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 01:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jeff, and CaptMondo... I did my first work on Egy. hieroglyphs with the Rosetta Stone, before I moved to the Amarna Letters, (I'm the one who did the Amarna letters cats: authors, cities, and officials categories,...made the Articles, and at the end googled all the photos to add to articles, with an Ext Link to see some of the real deals-(had to identify one on Google-the backside of Hannathon-difficult..the only word I saw on the back side (though in pristine condition)-was Ha na t n-(about half the line of cuneiform characters))).

When I did the Rosetta Stone, I did (2) half-lines for lines 1-14, sychronizing the Hieroglyphs, with the Greek translation(made 28 pages)-(I learned the text corpus stuff from that).... so I got kinda intimate with the details, like the putting of the rebels: "on stakes" (the Wood /stick hieroglyph- Branch (hieroglyph)...(Examine the gold (hieroglyph)-its nice, or the last I did: the Cross-ndj (hieroglyph)) and you know in commons, if you want to be AMAZED, or astounded, check on the replacement for the "incense pot" with the two Photos in commons that show the METEOR (one uses the stair-single (hieroglyph) the other is a stele-(click to the HIGH RES-its amazing the Meteor is at the foot of the Ibis bird, where the incense pot is) of immense import...by a 'chief of the artisans'..)... anyhow, I'll look at the articles latest-(R. Stone), and may also give you both comments... (And I worked on Canopus, Egypt and the Decree of Canopus... (so... I'm....).. I'm trying to say hello to you Jeff.. my buddy at work (about 3 years ago) ...saw the DIVING flag-(on your User Page), when he looked over my shoulders, so I know how talented, and multi-interested you are !...)-(and I hope you've seen List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z-(or A-L, thanks to using 'our' Spanish cohort's knowledge, applied)... (from HOT desert Arizona-SonoranDesert).. (so both of you fellows, enjoy)..Mmcannis (talk) 17:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

are you backish?

You seem back, may I prevail upon you when you have time?--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:54, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Not fully back but have a little time to check things out. Did you have a project in mind? I should probably stick to working on purely free images though. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 21:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Four, in descending order of importance and doability for you, and we appreciate all you can do!

purely free image

We don't need all the badges and numbers, just the shirt/pants/hat and a female version.

If you have time, we need:

• long and short sleeve variants
• shorts and pants variants
• male and female variants
• beret and campaign hat versions (you can use File:WikiProject Scouting campaign hat.svg you helped create!)

Please leave the uniform parts a neutral white so we can color them as the need calls

Also, please don't give them Polish naming. "File:WikiProject Scouting Girl Guide.svg" and so on is better.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Is there anything special, uniform specific, about how the pants/shirts should look? Otherwise I'll do a similar plain white versions with generic looking long sleeve/pant of these and they can be put together paper-doll style. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:15, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Bingo! Nothing specific as they change color patterns, badge patterns and so on by country.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 09:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

just because this oldie might pique your interest

• File:Egyptian Boy Scouts Association.png

--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Finity symbol

Hey Jeff, Would it be possible to make an svg from the spiral at Horus' hat (see http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Horus_standing.svg ) The image would be used as the main "finity symbol", ie the antagonist of the "infinity symbol (lemniscate)", already made and available at http://en.wikipedia.org/Infinity Thanks in advance, KVDP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.227.62 (talk) 07:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Ancient Egyptian Vector Art

Hi Mr Dahl,

Firstly I would like to thank you for your wonderfully detailed Ancient Egyptian images, they are a joy to view.

Secondly I would like to use your images for my personal non-profit website as well as on printed t-shirts etc. The tshirts etc are not for my profit but include a $2.00 donation to the Sunshine Charity in Luxor (for disadvantaged luxor children).

I can provide you with further proof and details of my intentions should you wish it.

Once again thanks for your images, they really are great and i've learned so much in the course of reading wikipedia.

Yozz3r Yozz3r (talk) 14:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Ancient Egyptian Vector Art

Sorry posted twice.

I understand you are busy, but I would be grateful for a reply as I am nearly ready to go live. This request is genuine and I will provide necessary proof if your require.

Regards and keep up the good work :)

Y. Yozz3r (talk) 15:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Request for the vector images of Egyptian Gods

Hi Jeff, I was very glad to find your vector images here online. I´m searching for a complete family tree of the heliopolitanean Cosmogony and I found all of the the 9 needed gods apart from Tefnut, Geb, and Nut. You never drawed them? Or I just didn´t find them? Whould be greatissimo the have all the nine of them in one stile. Thanks a lot for an answer! Greetings from Germany! Dermias —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.79.67.235 (talk) 11:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

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Carotene structure

Hi Jeff,

I believe you are the author of http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Carotenoid_synthetic_pathway.svg . The structue of beta-carotene (at the very bottom) has incorrect connectivity (the ring on the right is connected at the wrong carbon) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.236.142 (talk) 08:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Permissions

May I use your pictures of the Egyptian Deities for a personal project of mine (in no way will it be published)?--Necrㅎ Шea mo 04:20, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jeff,

First of all, let me clarify that I just created this account on Misplaced Pages for the sole purpose of contacting u and no more. So please forgive if I trespassed any of the guidelines or rules of talking here.

I am a neuroscience PhD student. I am of Egyptian origin. I find the history associated with ancient Egyptians to be quite fascinating.

I first read about the Edwin Smith papyrus in Misplaced Pages and wanted to show the original Hieratic text of the two words "brain" and "pain" in some of my seminars and documents.

Unfortunately, I can not find any free online images of the papyrus plates containing these two words, that are of high enough resolution. Unfortunately, the only good quality photo of any plate of the papyrus is urs and it does not contain my words of interest.

I am not sure how u obtained ur image. But I was wondering if it is possible for u to obtain two more similarly (or higher) resolution images of two other plates, and what would that take?

As I mentioned above, am no expert, but am sure adding few more plates to that Misplaced Pages article about the Edwin Smith papyrus would also increase its value.

Thanks

RaReHaMa (talk) 15:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

thanksgiving

your vector images are very nice. thank you. --78.173.235.37 (talk) 22:47, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank You for the Misplaced Pages Pictures

Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia freeware pictures (http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Third_Intermediate_Period_map.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Egypt_NK_edit.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Isis.svg and http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Standing_Osiris_edit1.svg). I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely,  Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com --75.162.209.2 (talk) 02:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

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Using your diffraction image in a short educational documentary

Hey Jeff, I'd like to use your x-ray diffraction image in a short film being made primarily for classroom use. The client is unfamiliar with Creative Commons licenses and would like some greater assurance that you're OK with this use. I can provide more details about the film if you'd like. many thanks Robwhittlesey (talk) 19:07, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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