InCommon Technical Discussions

["Farmer, Jacob" <>]

Scott,

Thanks -- that helps quite a bit. Thanks for clarifying!

Jacob

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From: Scott Koranda 
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Subject: Re: [InC-Technical] InCommon Baseline Expectations Metadata
Requirements

Hi,

> For instance, UMich's MDUI Logo
> (https://shibboleth.umich.edu/images/StackedBlockM-InC.png) takes up 
> the full square and doesn't have a transparent background, but appears 
> to be an intentionally designed icon. From your perspective, do you 
> think this is appropriate, or are you hoping for, say, just the M on a 
> transparent background (hypothetically of course, just trying to 
> understand what you see as ideal).

You are confusing the visual notion of "background" with the technical term
in the context of a "transparent background".

The image you point do does not have the "correct" aspect ratio since it is
100 x 107 instead of 80 x 60. It is higher than it is wide.

To fix this I used gimp and rescaled the image to be 60 pixels high. I then
changed the canvas to make it 80 pixels wide with a transparent background
(essentially "padding" with a transparent background).

The new image which is suitable for display in a wide spectrum of IdP
discovery services including the Shibboleth EDS is attached. You can save it
as a file and open it in your web browser and it will look the same
visually--I did not change any visual aspect of the logo (it is just smaller
now).

This is what we are doing now by hand for every discovery service we deploy
in production for every IdP we know we are going to use because there are no
standards (yet).

Thanks,

Scott K

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