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 (imported from blogger)

sli
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.
Anonymous
Bittorrent the 50 meg pdf.
Anonymous
AWESOME!!!
Anonymous
Anyone to describe how you did the poster in a little more depth? I'm interested in doing this for other projects.
chickenshit
Cool stuff!
For anyone wanting to print a 24-page (or whatever fits your needs) version, the
Rasterbator
is your friend.
Vittorio
very cool, could you make one also with Firefox? :)
Don Dwoske
Somebody should make an open source project around this.
inputs : source code, icon
output : poster
Helen Neely
Wow this is cool. I've never really played with graphics but should. Nice job.
Anonymous
Ironically this killed my chrome's internal PDF renderer.
Anonymous
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