Dinu Gherman wrote: >> Note on photo on the badge: I love the idea, but good luck getting >> people to give you photo's. If you do not make it a requirement, then >> some people will go for it, but most will not. This will also cause >> issues with printing. There are resolution/DPI along with CMYK/Pantone >> issues to deal with. All web images are RGB, and all professional >> printing is CMYK. From experience, unless you have a graphic designer >> going back and cleaning up all your images for the badges they will >> look like garbage, and in many cases headshots will not be >> distinguishable as a human. You will need to deal with scale and DPI. >> JPG, PNG, and GIF all allow for encoding the DPI in the actual image >> but rarely use this, defaulting to 1dot per pixel. If you ever print a >> web page with images turned on you will see what I am talking about. >> Unless the designer specifically took print into consideration, the >> images will be so small that you can't see them, going with 1pixel per >> dot, and letting the printer deal with it. Thus a 360x360 image is 1/2 >> inch square on a default photo printer setting, and often smaller on >> professional setups. Scaling and aliasing then become problems as >> well. No one has proper vector graphic head shots. > > True! Especially people from Germany are very reluctant to provide > personal data like fingerprints, iris scans and photographs. And still, > many leave exactly this kind of info to the US Immigration authorities > when travelling to PyCon. So it's more of a theoretic show stopper. > (I wonder if the same people will stop coming to PyCon as soon as the > US will start making sperm specimen a requirement for males entering > into the US? ;-) > > Regarding color space and resolution issues: this is true for offset > printing, but no issue at all when using laser or ink printers. To be > honest, because of the low volume I haven't thought even a minute about > offset printing in this case.
Am I missing something: why do we need a photograph of the badge owner on the badge... shouldn't that image be available some 30cm further up, in all the colors you want and whatever color space human eyes are using nowadays ;-) Seriously, I think Dinu's badge idea is great (minus the photo ;-), so let's have him do the badges and move on... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 27 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
