On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 16:43 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-06-24 11:26, eskroni a écrit : > > Hi Marc, > > > > > > Marc Paré wrote: > >> I just checked on my system (Mageia 1 -> a Mandriva fork), FreeSans is > >> not installed. How is the Liberation font family for print? This font is > >> definitely installed on all linux boxes. If we are to adopt a specific > >> font, we should make sure that it is a maintained font and that we can > >> either have a link to a site where it can be downloaded from or we > >> should store in on our own servers. I also think that it should be > >> opensource. > >> > >> I think I had seen somewhere on one of the wiki pages, a specific > >> recommendation for a font for print, was is not Vegur? > >> > > I'm not sure, that it was a recommmendation - Vegur is the font, that is > > used for the LibreOffice logo. > > > > I've made a few more screenshots with the Clearlooks theme and the different > > greens from the > > LibO branding page. > > > > You can find them all here: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Doku/Allgemein/Screenshots > > > > I also made those screenshots under Mageia 1, I didn't set a specific font. > > It just says "Sans" > > or "Sans Bold". For one set of screenshots I changed from a 10 point font to > > 12 points, to see > > how this would look like. For the font rendering I chose "Best contrast" > > inspite of me having a > > flatscreen monitor. > > > > Any comments are welcome. > > > > Sigrid > > > > > Thanks for doing this Sigrid > > One comment is that maybe next time, not have the spell check on for > these. It just make it a little more difficult for evaluation. We really > need the comments from the documentation team people on the look and > feel for our documents and especially for print. At this point, we > should try to accommodate the comments from Jean Hollis Weber on this > topic and try to find a theme OR create our own theme for this purpose. > Maybe none of the "pre-packaged" themes will work for what we need.
I've briefly looked at the samples Sigrid and someone else posted. Thanks to both of you! My first thought is that a variation on Clearlooks (colour and perhaps font) should work very well. But I want to do some printing tests on a b/w printer before saying more. I'll get back to this list with more comments later today (it's 07:00 here). --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
