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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