Hi Marc, On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:11:06 -0400 Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 2011-06-26 01:38, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : > > On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 02:15 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > >> Hi Jean, Sigrid, all, > >> > >> Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: > >>> Jean wrote: [...] > Well, as you say, there are different needs. The documentation's first > need should be that of print quality. If we are to submit our work to > LuLu's for print, the buyers should definitely get what we consider a > good representation of LibreOffice in type and screenshots. From an > aesthetic point of view, not sure if all in gray is too appealing for > users making use of reading our documentation online. It would be nice > if we got the same print from one of our greens as with a gray. But if > not, then gray should be it. BTW ... are the Lulu prints in colour or B/W? > > For web and marketing teams, the green in the theme is pretty well > called for, if we are to keep with the brand colour. It identifies the > suite and lends itself well to brand recognition. > > Would getting an opinion from someone involved at Lulu's be of any > additional help as far as the print quality? They may be able to give us > a little more input from the point of view of end product. I think we > could convince them to offer some opinion on the matter if we had some > samples for them to look at. Hm, you're talking to the right person - Jean is the one who is involved with Lulu. :) The books we offer through Lulu are printed in b/w, because colour would be much more expensive. We only have some colour on the title page, the rest is black and white and greyscale. > Then, we can all decide (vote). The "vocal people" and others can all > participate on the design decision being well informed on the options, > this, as per usual with design proposal and adoption decisions. We are > looking at: > > * a theme that is easily installable by members > * a theme optimized for LibreOffice documentation screenshot print > * a theme suitable for web and marketing purposes > > The theme does not necessarily need to be of the same configuration for > the two and may lead to 2 theme configurations. That would be ok with me. But I would like to have a decision soon - I'd like to finish the first chapter with the screenshots. I took already 9 shots, but I'm hesitant to take more, if we decide for something different and I have to redo them again. :) > > Is there anything missing? > > BTW ... sorry I didn't participate on the testing of the samples as I > don't think that I would have a well enough informed opinion on the > print quality. I don't think my printer would give a good enough print > to compare. No, I think you should have used your printer - print one version in colour and maybe another one in greyscale. See how those printouts look. I suspect, that this is what many people do (not everyone buys the books from Lulu) and not everyone likes reading from a computer screen. (I personally prefer reading from a printout instead of reading from my screen). Sigrid -- 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
