» Updated openSUSE countdown image

Our infamous Jakub "jimmac" Steiner designed new openSUSE countdown artwork that is more in line with the look and feel of the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 distribution. He also proposed using SVG templates and rsvg in order to render the various localized images, rather than the Python PIL script with crappy math I wrote a while ago, including the many ugly hacks to compute the coordinates text coordinates, font size adjustments, etc... It is indeed much more comfortable and flexible now, simply by using Inkscape to design the templates (one for each image size, because it uses a raster background rather than a vectorized SVG), containing placeholders.
A plain Python script contains all the localization logic and replaces those placeholders with the appropriate content for each language, and then feeds that into rsvg-convert to render PNG files.

If you're interested by the nitty gritty of that script, it is available at forgesvn1.novell.com. For details on how to include that openSUSE countdown image on your site, blog, ..., please consult the corresponding page on the openSUSE wiki.