[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

Le 14/05/13 04:59 PM, Jean Weber a écrit :
> On 15/05/2013, at 6:21, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
>
> > Great! So let's go with this as the final version.
> >
> > I have uploaded this version to the wiki corresponding wiki page:
> >
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt
> >
> > I will be back with the other brochure sizes filled in with the text:
> >
> > Community A4
> > Official USLtr
> > Official A4
> >
> > We will not have to look at the text but only look at the formatting on the page/hyphenation which 
> > will make our job a lot easier and quicker to do.
> >
> > ===============
> >
> > The last item for this brochure-type will be to do a .pdf version. For this version type. I would 
> > suggest we do this after we have completed all of the brochure types; the .pdf version is less 
> > pressing and I am not sure if we should expend the amount of energy working on the .pdf version 
> > with clickable links at this time. We are in more drastic need for the printable brochures than the 
> > .pdf versions.
> >
> > ==============
>
> For printing purposes, you absolutely want a PDF. It need not be one with clickable links, intended 
> for viewing. But it is essential for printing. Any person or commercial printer can handle PDF.

No problem with putting up the 4 brochure .pdf versions, I will make the 
versions and post them. I will take care of this so that we can have 
similar wiki file location URL's for all of the brochure-types. It will 
make it that much easier to find/predict their respective URL'S on the 
wiki.

I've uploaded the .pdf and left it as a response to this post.



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As a point of discussion on the printing of .pdf's from .odt:

I was hoping to promote our .odt file format and hope that the people 
who download and print brochures would decide on their own to create the 
.pdf brochure should they see a need for doing so. This way, we would be 
assured that the person(s) would at least be using an ODF-compatible 
wordprocessor.

This is more of a philosophical view of posting our materials and less 
of practicality. Does it make it more difficult to print out our 
brochures? Well yes, if you consider that some may just download the 
.pdf version and go to print with Adobe Reader or another .pdf reader, 
and, not even bother having a version of LibreOffice on their system. 
But IMO, I would then rather see people use LibreOffice or another .odt 
compatible wordprocessor do the work. This will at least ensure that our 
product and format stand out as a good solid and professional working 
format from which to work. It would help in establishing the ODF 
standard as a gold standard in office formats.

We need to start displacing the .pdf format and we, the juggernaut that 
we are, are well placed to do this; there are really only 2 elephants in 
the room left and its LibreOffice and MSO.

We can't keep saying that the ODF standard is the best of office suite 
standards and then make use of the Adobe .pdf file to print our 
products. We are well placed to encourage/influence more printing houses 
to host LibreOffice solutions on their premises for printing purposes. 
The first question users should say to their printing houses is "Do you 
service/support LibreOffice ODF printing?" If the demand is there, the 
service will follow. By continuing to make use of .pdf formats, we are 
diminishing the demand of service for our own product.

We use LibreOffice in-house for our production work and we know it's 
strength as a serious work tool.

IMO, we should start making our influence felt where we can. This will 
also strengthen our product with groups who are considering adoption of 
our suite as they will see our resolve to make the ODF formats more of 
the office format standard of choice.

Marc


> --Jean


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