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2.4 The <tt>`trunk/Identity'</tt> Directory

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    2.4.1 Goals 
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    2.4.2 Description 
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      2.4.2.1 Corporate Design 
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      2.4.2.2 Corporate Communication 
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      2.4.2.3 Corporate Behaviour 
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      2.4.2.4 Corporate Structure 
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      2.4.3 Usage 
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      2.4.4 See also 
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      2.4.1 Goals

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      The <tt>`trunk/Identity'</tt> directory structure implements The

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      CentOS Project Corporate Identity.
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      2.4.2 Description

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        2.4.2.1 Corporate Design 
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        2.4.2.2 Corporate Communication 
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        2.4.2.3 Corporate Behaviour 
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        2.4.2.4 Corporate Structure 
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        The CentOS Project corporate identity is the "persona" of the

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        organization known as The CentOS Project.  The CentOS Project
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        corporate identity plays a significant role in the way the CentOS
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        Project, as organization, presents itself to both internal and
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        external stakeholders. In general terms, the CentOS Project corporate
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        visual identity expresses the values and ambitions of the CentOS
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        Project organization, its business, and its characteristics.  
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        The CentOS Project corporate identity provides visibility,

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        recognizability, reputation, structure and identification to The
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        CentOS Project organization by means of Corporate Design,
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        Corporate Communication, and Corporate Behaviour.
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        2.4.2.1 Corporate Design

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        The CentOS Project corporate design is applied to every single visual

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        manifestations The CentOS Project as organization wants to express its
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        existence. Examples of the most relevant visual manifestations inside
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        The CentOS Project are The CentOS Distribution, The
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        CentOS Web and The CentOS Stationery.
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        The CentOS Project corporate design is organized in the following

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        work-lines:
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        The CentOS Brand
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        The CentOS Brand is the name or trademark that connects the producer

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        with their products. In this case, the producer is The CentOS Project
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        and the products are The CentOS Project visual manifestations. 
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        See section The <tt>`trunk/Identity/Brands'</tt> Directory, for more information.

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        The CentOS Colors
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        The CentOS Fonts provides the color information used along The CentOS

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        Project visual manifestations.
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        See section The <tt>`trunk/Identity/Colors'</tt> Directory, for more information.

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        The CentOS Fonts
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        The CentOS Fonts provides the typography information used along The

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        CentOS Project visual manifestations.
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        See section The <tt>`trunk/Identity/Fonts'</tt> Directory, for more information.

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        The CentOS Themes
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        The CentOS Themes provides structural information and visual style

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        information, as well, used along The CentOS Project visual
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        manifestations.
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        See section The <tt>`trunk/Identity/Themes'</tt> Directory, for more information.

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        2.4.2.2 Corporate Communication

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        The CentOS Project corporate communication is based on community

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        communication.  In that sake, the following media are available for
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        corporate communication:
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        • The CentOS Mailing Lists (http://lists.centos.org/).
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          2.4.2.3 Corporate Behaviour

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          The CentOS Project corporate behaviour is based on community

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          behaviour.
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          2.4.2.4 Corporate Structure

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          The CentOS Project corporate structure is based on a monolithic

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          corporate visual identity structure. In this structure, we use one
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          unique name (The CentOS Brand) and one unique visual style (The CentOS
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          Theme) in all The CentOS Project visual manifestations.
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          Inside a monolithic corporate visual identity structure, internal and

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          external stakeholders use to feel a strong sensation of uniformity,
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          orientation, and identification with the organization. No matter if
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          you are visiting web sites, using the distribution, or acting on
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          social events, the one unique name and one unique visual style
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          connects them all to say: Hey! we are all part of The CentOS
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          Project.
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          Other corporate structures have been considered as well, but they

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          introduce visual contradictions we need to be aware of.  In that sake,
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          lets describe the idea of: Producing one different visual style
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          for each major release of The CentOS Distribution.
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          The CentOS Project maintains near to four different major releases of

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          The CentOS Distribution parallely in time and that fact makes one part
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          of The CentOS Project structural design, but just one part, not the
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          complete structural design.  In order to produce the correct corporate
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          structure for The CentOS Project we need to concider all the visual
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          manifestations The CentOS Project is made of, not just one of them.
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          If one different visual style is used for each major release of The

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          CentOS Distribution, which one of those different visual styles would
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          be used to cover the remaining visual manifestations The CentOS
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          Project is made of. Would we end up with four different visual styles,
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          one for each distribution?  In that case, why The CentOS Distribution
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          we use shows one visual style, The CentOS Web sites another and The
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          CentOS Stationery even another completly different one?  Isn't them
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          all part of the same project?
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          Probably you be thinking, that's right, but The CentOS Brand connects

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          them all already, why would we need to join them up into the same
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          visual style too, isn't it more work to do, and harder to maintain?
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          Harder to maintain, more work to do, it is probably. Specially when

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          you consider that The CentOS Project has proven stability and
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          consistency through time and that, certainly, didn't come through
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          swinging magical wangs or something but hardly working out to automate
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          tasks and so providing maintainance through time. Said that, we
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          consider that The CentOS Project visual structure should be consequent
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          with such stability and consistency tradition. It is true The CentOS
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          Brand does connect all the visual manifestations it is present on, but
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          that connection would be stronger if one unique visual style backups
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          it.  In fact, whatever thing you do to strength the visual connection
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          among The CentOS Project visual manifestations would be very good in
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          favor of The CentOS Project recognition.
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          Obviously, having just one visual style in all visual manifestations

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          for eternity would be a very boring thing and would give the idea of a
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          visually dead project. So, there is no problem on creating a brand new
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          visual style for each new major release of The CentOS Distribution, in
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          order to refresh The CentOS Distribution visual style; the problem
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          does is in not propagating the brand new visual style created for the
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          new release of CentOS Distribution to all other visual manifestations
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          The CentOS Project is made of, in a way The CentOS Project could be
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          recognized no matter what visual manifestation be in front of us. Such
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          lack of uniformity is what introduces the visual contradition we are
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          precisely trying to solve by mean of themes production in the CentOS
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          Artwork Repository.
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          2.4.3 Usage

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          The <tt>`trunk/'</tt> directory structure is organized in

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          renderable and non-renderable directories. Generally,
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          renderable directories contain two non-renderable directories inside,
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          one to store design templates (the <tt>`Tpl/'</tt> directory), and other
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          to store the content produced (the <tt>`Img/'</tt> directory).
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          In order to produce content inside rendereble directories, you can use

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          the following command:
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          centos-art render trunk/Identity/Path/To/Dir
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          Warning

          Warning

          If the centos-art command-line

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          is not found in your workstation, it is probably because you haven't
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          prepared it for using The CentOS Artwork Repository yet.
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          See section The <tt>`trunk/Scripts/Functions/Verify'</tt> Directory, for more
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          information.  
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          This command takes one design template from the template directory and

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          creates an instance of it in order to apply translation messages on
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          it, if any. Later, using the design template instance, the command
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          renders the final content based on whether the design template
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          instance is a SVG file or a Docbook file. If the design template
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          instace is a SVG file, the final content produced is a PNG image. On
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          the other hand, if the design template instance is a Docbook file, the
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          final content produced is a XHTML file. Final content is stored in the
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          image directory using the design template directory paths as referece.
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          The rendition flow described so far is known as the
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          base-rendition flow.
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          Besides the base-rendition flow, the centos-art provides the

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          post-rendition and last-rendition flows.  The
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          post-rendition flow is applied to files produced as result of
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          base-rendition flow under the same directory structure. For example,
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          you can use post-rendition action to convert the PNG base output into
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          different outputs (e.g., JPG, PDF, etc.) before passing to process the
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          next file in the same directory structure.  The last-rendition flow is
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          applied to all files produced as result of both base-rendition and
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          post-rendition flows in the same directory structure, just before
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          passing to process a different directory structure.  For example, the
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          <tt>`Preview.png'</tt> image from Ksplash component is made of three
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          images. In order to build the <tt>`Preview.png'</tt> image through
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          centos-art we need to wait for all the three images the
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          <tt>`Preview.png'</tt> image is made of to be rendered, so we can combine
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          them all together into just one image (i.e., the <tt>`Preview.png'</tt>
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          image).  This is something we can't do using post-rendition flow.
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          Inside <tt>`trunk/Identity'</tt> directory structure, you can find that

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          base-rendition, post-rendition and last-rendition flows can be
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          combined to build directory-specific rendition.  The
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          directory-specific rendition exists to automatically process specific
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          renderable directories in very specific ways. Using directory-specific
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          rendition speeds up production of different components like Syslinux,
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          Grub, Gdm, Kdm and Ksplash that require intermediate formats or even
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          several independent files, in order to reach its final construction.
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          Directory-specific rendition is a way to programmatically describe how
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          specific art works are built in and organized inside The CentOS
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          Artwork Repository.  Such descriptions have been added to
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          centos-art command-line to let you produce them all with
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          just one single command, as fast as your machine can be able to handle
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          it. 
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          See section The <tt>`trunk/Scripts/Functions/Identity'</tt> Directory, for more

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          information about the identity functionality of
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          centos-art command-line interface.
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          2.4.4 See also

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          See http://en.wikipedia.org/Corporate_identity (and related

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          links), for general information on corporate identity. 
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          Specially useful has been, and still be, the book Corporate

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          Identity by Wally Olins (1989). This book provides many conceptual
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          ideas we've used as base to build The CentOS Artwork Repository. 
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