Re: [libreoffice-design] Need a small graphic for the General Information brochure

Whatever graphic will be included, remember is will be printed out at 
300 or 600 DPI - most home office color printers - and be maybe an inch 
or 2.5 cm long.

That leaves out a lot of the listings below that look great in larger 
scales.

This brochure need to be printed out on home office systems - inkjet and 
laser [color and monochrome].  So real complex images shrunk down to fit 
the needed size and placement may not work well at all.

Scrolling or swirling works fine for most ideas I used.  We just have to 
make sure of the size and placement, while keeping the text formatting 
in its desired placement on the pages.

On 05/19/2013 10:11 AM, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> Am 19.05.2013 13:12, schrieb Marc Paré:
> > In our "General Information" brochure[1], we (the marketing team) break
> > some sections of text with a line that is made up of " ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ "
> > (tilde's). However, when we go to print, some printers interpret this
> > line as a group of tilde's separated by micro-blank-space between each
> > tilde OR other printers interpret this line as a group of tilde's but
> > grouped together as one wavy line.
> >
> > We should really be using a nice graphic to separate these sections.
> > Would anyone on the design team have a good graphic that we could use
> > instead of this line? We could then use the same graphic in all of our
> > brochure-types that we are planning to write up.
>
> Maybe something like [1]? The svg and png are here [2].
> See an example in [3].
> I'm using it here: [4].
>
> [1] 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:TDF_motifscatterHorizon_110318NS.png
> [2] 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Motif#Variants_for_Future_Use
> [3] 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Motif#Scatter_in-context_update
> [4] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Koordination#Get_Involved.21
>
> I know that the motif was kicked away silently by all of the designers 
> who contributed in last time.
>
> > The marketing team would really appreciate it if you could take a look
> > at the brochure and see if you would have any suggestion(s) for a
> > graphic replacement.
>
> My 0,2 cts from a non-professional designer:
> - The cover page is too black. Why don't you use the same colour as in 
> the circle? For me it has a hard breaking white text.
> - The cover background colour (black) should expand over the whole 
> page and should not have a white "Trauerrand".
> - Is it possible to print a professional brochure in high quality with 
> an .odt (300dpi) or do we need a DTP-file?
> - The whole thing is, as I told many times, breaking any branding rules.
> So if we use it, we should change the branding rules to make it official.
> - And IMHO the 4.0-greens (either this in the half circle or in the 
> splashscreen) don't look good with any of our branding greens and so 
> especially the community brochure [1] have a substantial problem by 
> using the official logo with the LibO-green and the 4.0-splashgreen.
> The last two points are (my personal opinion) "mistakes" of the 
> marketing/website team and! the design team. And we all will get more 
> and more problems with it if we don't solve it. But this should be 
> another thread.
> [...]
> (I deleted my last sentence. If you are interested I can send it per PM.)
>
>
> As it should be a professional and official brochure anyone should ask 
> a professional designer what he thinks about it.
>
>
> [1] 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-A4.odt


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