Thursday, December 24, 2009

Google Chrome Poster from Source Code

This holiday weekend, I decided to compose the Google Chrome logo using the browser's own source code. I used a combination of Ruby, ImageMagick, and a heavily hacked PDF library to generate this poster.

This is the icon that I used:



Here's what it looks like zoomed in:



And zoomed in some more:



Download the PDF in all it's vectorized glory. (Approx 1.5MB. Please don't link directly to the poster.)

Take it to your favourite print shop. Since it is based on vector graphics, it can be scaled up trivially without losing quality.

Happy Holidays!

P.S. If you ask me nicely, I might send you a 24-page letter-sized split of the poster so you can print it at home. (At nearly 50MB, it's too big for me to host here.)

10 comments:

  1. sli3:17 PM, December 24, 2009

    I wouldn't mind hosting the 50 meg PDF for you for a little while. I'm not 100% sure how long it will last, but I'd be happy to help while I can.

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  2. Anonymous3:28 PM, December 24, 2009

    Bittorrent the 50 meg pdf.

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  3. Anonymous5:51 PM, December 24, 2009

    AWESOME!!!

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  4. Anonymous6:19 PM, December 24, 2009

    Anyone to describe how you did the poster in a little more depth? I'm interested in doing this for other projects.

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  5. chickenshit7:36 AM, December 25, 2009

    Cool stuff!

    For anyone wanting to print a 24-page (or whatever fits your needs) version, the Rasterbator is your friend.

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  6. Vittorio12:25 AM, December 27, 2009

    very cool, could you make one also with Firefox? :)

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  7. Don Dwoske2:57 PM, December 28, 2009

    Somebody should make an open source project around this.

    inputs : source code, icon
    output : poster

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  8. Helen Neely3:13 AM, April 25, 2010

    Wow this is cool. I've never really played with graphics but should. Nice job.

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  9. Anonymous4:15 PM, November 24, 2010

    Ironically this killed my chrome's internal PDF renderer.

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  10. Anonymous10:03 AM, September 18, 2013

    Hey just found this post. Would you mind posting the source code (of the poster generator).
    I would like to do something similar for a project of mine.

    Cheers,
    Sebastian

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