RE: Cisco icons for Dia (still very much alive)

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp spiritual-machines org>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ian Redfern wrote:

> Well, the short answer is that Cisco released some new icons yesterday
> and I haven't caught up yet.
>
> I am in the process of converting the March 2003 Cisco PowerPoint colour
> icon set to Dia shapes. They're all done, and people are successfully
> using them, but there are still a number of bugs - particularly when
> printed (the lines come out too thick) - so I consider my version to
> still be in beta.

Here's the copyright / licensing info on the alternate group of icons from
the Cisco TAC:

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:56:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Kruik <vkruik@cisco.com>
To: lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org
Cc: lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org
Subject: Case E323785 - Cisco icons


Hello Brian,

Thank you for your feedback. You can assume that the same rules apply as
stated on the page:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/503/2.html

I have forwarded your feedback to the group responsible for placing the
icon on our website. I've also found a resource for
more icons for you:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_visio_icon_list.html

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you, or if I may
close this case.

Kind regards,

Vincent Kruik

Cisco.com Support
Cisco Systems

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>
> My intention is that these should be a drop-in replacement for the black
> and white set.
>
> There are around 10 new icons in yesterday's release (and a couple of
> changes - the new cellphone icon is much nicer), and I will add them to
> my set shortly. I'm hoping they will all be finished by the end of
> August. Note that Cisco's own set isn't consistent across different
> formats.
>
> And no, I've certainly not reached the point where I can convert
> anything Visio directly to Dia - my current route is to print to a
> PostScript file, then convert that to SVG. Anyone who needs this done is
> welcome to ask.
>
> Those who wish to beta test the colour set are welcome at
> http://public.logicacmg/~redferni/dia - comments always welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian Redfern.
>
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:08, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> > Hopefully this isn't OT, but Cisco has additional, more Cisco-centric
> > icons available at:
> > http://resources.cisco.com/app/tree.taf?asset_id=64914&public_view=true
> > (CCO guest level access required) ... there are greyscale and bluetone
> > [Adobe?] Illustrator (.eps) (viewable in ggv and gv), as well as MS
> > Visio (.vss) versions.  However, there is absolutely no copyright /
> > licensing info on these .  There are 213 of them.
> >
> > I bring this up because there are close to 250 icons in the most recent
> > TIF format package at:
> >
> > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/503/2.html
> >
> > ...and 200 more at:
> >
> > http://resources.cisco.com/app/tree.taf?asset_id=64914&public_view=true
> >
> > ...and I'm not sure if/how they overlap with those available at:
> >
> > http://public.logicacmg.com/~redferni/dia/
> >
> > ...but I'm sure most people would prefer to have as many as possible at
> > their disposal.
> >
> > Also I'm not sure how much more reverse engineering progress has been
> > made on the Visio file format since June of 2002, but these new Icons
> > may provide higher resolution output for use in Sheets/Shapes.
> >
> > l8*
> > -lava
> >
> >
> > I found the original thread in the archives:
> > ---------------
> >
> > I've converted the Cisco standard icon set to Dia shapes, so I can do my
> > network diagrams in Dia. It contains most of Cisco's products, plus 82
> > miscellaneous icons for datacoms and telecoms equipment, computers,
> > people, buildings and the essential fluffy cloud.
> >
> > According to the Cisco download page, the icons are not copyrighted.
> >
> > Anyone interested can download them from
> > http://public.logica.com/~redferni/dia/ - do let me know if they're any
> > use.
> > --
> > Ian Redfern
> > Consultant
> > Telecoms Solutions
> > Logica UK
> > Tel: +44 (0) 20 7446 1686
> > Email: RedfernI@logica.com
> > www.logica.com
>
> --
> Ian Redfern
> Consultant
> UK Telecoms Solutions
> LogicaCMG
> Tel: +44 20 7637 9111
> Email: Ian.Redfern@LogicaCMG.com
> www.logicacmg.com
>
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