Rail Africa [Quenched]

[isaiah40]

A small advice for graphic, some bonus names are still hard to read, specially The Continental,The Easter Coasterand Victoria Falls Exp

Have a nice day
Nobodies

Congrats cairns!! Shouldn't be too long for that Gr stamp now!!

[cairnswk]

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Congrats cairns!! Shouldn't be too long for that Gr stamp now!!

Thanks isaiah40....

[isaiah40]

I think it's too funny that when I asked where the GP stamp was, the very next post there it was

[gimil]

Hi Cairns,

To further address nobodies issue with the legends text, I personally find them readable but not comfortable readable. I think it needs to be a good bit crisper to make it perfectly readable, I am worried that someone with lesser eyesight than myself (with my specs on) may begin to struggle with the texts readability. Also the I and J lines on the legends are of similar colour it took me a few seconds to realise what line was what, someone who is colourblind may be less fortunate.

Apart from that I like the difference in style on this map. It definitely feels African, at least to me.



Cheers,
gimil

[natty dread]

Yeah, sharpen the text in the legend. It is a bit smudgy. Maybe try another font?

[cairnswk]

Yeah, sharpen the text in the legend. It is a bit smudgy. Maybe try another font?

Hi Cairns,

To further address nobodies issue with the legends text, I personally find them readable but not comfortable readable. I think it needs to be a good bit crisper to make it perfectly readable, I am worried that someone with lesser eyesight than myself (with my specs on) may begin to struggle with the texts readability. Also the I and J lines on the legends are of similar colour it took me a few seconds to realise what line was what, someone who is colourblind may be less fortunate.
Apart from that I like the difference in style on this map. It definitely feels African, at least to me.
Cheers,
gimil

thanks Guys. Does this help any.
I've changed the font completely and reworked the labels.
I don't have issue with the colours between the I J lines as they are distinctly different ends of the green scale and those lines and stations are marked on the map for the colour blind. I've even widened the ticket to make it better.

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[natty dread]

Yeah, that looks a lot better

[isaiah40]

Yea! That's the ticket!! (pun intended). Much better cairns!

[ender516]

The text is much clearer. Care to reveal a trade secret and tell how you did it?

[cairnswk]

Yea! That's the ticket!! (pun intended). Much better cairns!

Yeah, that looks a lot better

The text is much clearer. Care to reveal a trade secret and tell how you did it?

Thanks guys,
This map is being worked in Coreldraw X4, but some of these things you whould be able to adapt for other software like PS.
I had to un-rotate the ticket...the rotation is set 6.7degrees -> back to zero.
The font before was Futura Md BT @2.6pts
Now the font is Lucida Sans Unicode @2.6pts
All the text had to be re-done because i had used kerning on the previous text to space it out more.
No change in the point size.
The ticket was widened by 8 pixels, as were the black background text boxes.
There are four seperate texts per line, the DEP-DEST text had to be re-set using grids so that it was just a little wider.
There was a layer that was sitting over the ticket 70% black at 65% fill transparency...it was sitting over the colours also.
I simply moved the black boxes and the coloured text above that transparent layer so that it stood out more, but the rest of the ticket didn't loose its musty effect from the that leyer. And you can see that musty effect ends just before the edges of the ticket.
Then group everything up again and rotate it back.
Hope this helps

And for anyone interested....a peak of the next one.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s282 ... a_V01S.jpg

[gimil]

That ticket looks much better cairns and those colours I was having issues with look more distinct with sharper text.

I think the ticket could do with being a little wider again. Just to give some space between those with longer names and their bonus numbers, but that is just a nitpick.

Good work cairns, keep on going strong!

[cairnswk]

That ticket looks much better cairns and those colours I was having issues with look more distinct with sharper text.

I think the ticket could do with being a little wider again. Just to give some space between those with longer names and their bonus numbers, but that is just a nitpick.

Good work cairns, keep on going strong!

Thanks Gimil, i think the ticket is wide enough and there is adequate space between the names and their bonus enough so that the bonuses can be recognised.
I still see some colour issues with that ticket that i'll fix though.

[ender516]

The ticket is much improved. Will you be posting that latest version to page 1, or are you going to fix the colour issues first? I'm not sure exactly what issues you are referring to, but I'm so impressed with the clarity that I don't much care. Very nice work.

[cairnswk]

The ticket is much improved. Will you be posting that latest version to page 1, or are you going to fix the colour issues first? I'm not sure exactly what issues you are referring to, but I'm so impressed with the clarity that I don't much care. Very nice work.

just a couple of colours in the ticket that i picked up aren't quite correct, and i didn't quite the translatio from coreldraw to .jpg of the capetown colour. see new version soon.

[cairnswk]

Version 17.

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