Andrew Greig wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the effort to produce the pamphlet, it is a lot or work.
I can not take all the credit. I downloaded from the wiki site the text, in German, and ran it through the translate extension. The using cut and paste put it in the tri-fold, which I have since modified to work better. >>From a visual perspective, it is a lot of words, which can be daunting > to the receiver. It would benefit from more "white space" and at least > one clear screenshot of a writer page showing the tool bars (which could > span a fold). With the discussion of suitability for user groups, many > of the points were common, and could have shared a common space at the > top, the others need to be bullet points well spaced. > > Rather than the list of links on the brochure, just one would suffice, > to the OOo homepage. By trimming much of the editorial whitespace can be > made available to allow the bullet points to stand out. > > The idea of a pamphlet is to arrest the receiver's attention. Where it > is too densely populated with words, it is often binned because it is > too much effort. We don't have to tell the whole story up front, we just > have to get them to read it, go to the website and download OOo. > > The website should cover the benefits for different user groups in more > detail, starting with a link like "More info for pamphlet readers" for > example. > > Now that the initial hard work is done, the editing can really turn this > into a fantastic resource. The idea (which has just sprung to mind as I > write this) could be developed further by having specific pamphlets for > the different market segments: Home, Business, Education, Government. If > the initial pamphlet drives people to the website, then they could > download a pamphlet to take back to their particular organisation, to > initiate the discussion about using OOo. > > Cheers > > > Andrew Greig > Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org > Melbourne, Australia Thanks for the comments and feedback. I will go back and make the changes and re-upload for more review. This is the reason I wanted someone else to look at it. If someone else wises to give the editing a go let me know. -- Andy Brown La Mesa, CA 91942 www.the-martin-byrd.net/openoffice.org.html OpenOffice.org Community Distributor CD/OEM Distribution Project member Documentation Project member Marketing Project member User Experience Project member --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
