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I've been having a thought about how to give more tools to people who are enthusiastic about #mastodon and growing their #communities but do it in a way that is #federated. One idea I'm playing with is the physical space #flyer, with little removable cut off strips which you see often in student digs and laundromats. (see image for example flyer) But a single flyer wouldn't be enough... ๐งต 1/2 7 comments
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@doctormo I do like the idea and I think that using a pdf processing lib (as poppler provides, or other) would simpler to integrate with a web facing application, such as a website.
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Poppler only provides the backend to cairo, you'd still need an svg lib. Which I _guess_ librsvg would be fine. ๐ Just tell template authors not to use any SVG 2.0 features. ๐ 
smallcircles (Humanity Now ๐)
CC-ing @lightone as maybe this is something to integrate with https://fediverse.party ?? 
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@doctormo I like the idea a lot. I have had good experiences with preparing a SVG with placeholder text, which gets replaced with final texts (e.g. using sed) and then using Inkscape to export to PDF. Providing ample space or some mechanism to limit user-provided input would be important I think. The only potential issue I see is that if not done well, such flyers could also get annoying, if not done well or overdone. But I think Fediverse has not yet reached that point. :) |
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This type of flyer would be a template and a simple website would allow you to enter in a bunch of details, replace the text with your own language, the specific instance you're linking to and the images with one that makes sense for your instance.
Imagine putting one up in your science lab lounge, or your football team pub, for instances about those things.
Technically the website would produce a pdf using inkscape. #details
Thoughts?