On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Alex Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
On Saturday 12 December 2009 06:20:44 Andy Brown wrote: > John McCreesh wrote: > > I agree with Alexandro - I prefer the more graphical look of the > > "Education Flyer". I think this particular flyer is good, although I > > think it could be improved by targeting the message better, and making > > more use of the available space. I also believe we should avoid > > proprietary software to create marketing materials, especially when the > > pdfs they create do not print correctly on the most common Linux pdf > > viewer :( > > The pamphlet/flyers/whatever you want to call them, should be done in > Writer. That way anyone that needs them can make the appropriate > changes for they locale and print them out. I agree with Alexandro, avoid Writer, use Draw it's much more suited to DTP work and much easier to edit later on.And I emphatically disagree with that. Draw is a PITA to work in. For DTP, Writer is so much better. You have many of the features of Pagemaker available in Writer, but as far as I can see not in Draw (for example, linked frames which can be several pages apart, just like in "proper" DTP software. There is more...).
Well to start Draw supports layers, locks, and visible tool which makes it much more easy to work with DTP, also they are al floating around the page and the use of grids and gides make it much more easy to snap objects to a specific measure. I dont see writer having this things. So I really don't see how using DRAW is hard to do. I have done complex images like Otto completely in DRAW, also have pushed lots more complex flyers that would be impossible or just a pain to do in Writer. For example this one: http://shop1.actinicexpress.co.uk/shops/essential_web_site_maker/images/catalog/OO2-01---Cover---big.gif
Chjeers GL > > As an early warning, for our 2010 marketing work I'll be looking to > > source some new brochures for conferences etc. There was some off-line > > discussion about this at OOoCon - one suggestion that went down well > > was to go 'mix and match'. So, we'd have a high quality, global, > > 'language neutral' folder - think > > http://www.folderprinting.co.uk/a4-folders.html - which we would use > > with inserts as appropriate: > > > > - for a small event - e.g. at a university - a local team could print > > out / photocopy black and white A4 inserts in the local language > > - for a large consumer event we could have one insert per 'application' > > (Writer, Calc, etc) printed full colour > > This may work for a large venue but what I am looking at is maybe 100 or > 200 to send to university for an event they are having. > > > The folder could also contain a product DVD if appropriate. > > > > Feedback welcomed - would this work? > > > > Thanks - John > > I have posters and disk ready to ship, it is the flyers that are holding > me up. > > -- > Andy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]-- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
-- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected]
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