On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi :) > I think that selling it is fine. > > Have the printers tried printing a page that has images such as > screen-shots? That would give us a good idea of whether the picture > resolution needs to be improved or not. It would be a good for us to > get feedback about that anyway. > One of project officer ask for high resolution copy but I am not aware of what the press feedback. > > Costs have to be covered somehow and a bit more to help cover unexpected > problems and even make a little profit is fine too. Have a look at how much > Lulu charge to get an idea of what you can do. > > http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/getting-started-with-libreoffice-33/14703788 > I think any extra money raised should go into your project there rather > than back to TDF, unless you make millions! You wont need to buy the books > frrom Lulu as your project is printing it's own and again that is fine so > just set price according to what you feel is appropriate. I'm not sure how > schools are funded there so it might not be possible for them to pay > anything. If that is the case then it might be good to print the books > showing a price but then allow the schools a reduction (to zero or whatever) > so that if people want to buy additional books then they might be able to. > > As the full book consist with more than 350 pages they will print chapter by chapter. Most probably they use only Writer, Calc and Impress as most of their employees (academic and none-academic need word processing and spreadsheets) > > It does seem like an excellent and very worthwhile project. It is good to > know that you are doing this :) > Thanks > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Mon, 19/9/11, Danishka Navin <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Danishka Navin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] High resolution copy of Libo book > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 19 September, 2011, 12:18 > > Hi Tom, > > They want to just print the book at their own press but not expecting to > alter any content or translate. > And they wont sell it. > > Best Regards, > Danishka > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > Are the screen-shots stored somewhere else and then reduced for the > books? > > If we can access the originals then it might be easier to replace them? > > > > In many cultures it is impolite to criticise at all but in English and > > American culture you have to criticise quite rudely before anyone takes > any > > notice. I think some of us are unclear whether you are saying that > > 1. there definitely is a problem but you are naturally being polite and > > avoiding saying so > > or > > 2. you have a vague feeling there might be a problem > > or > > 3. you don't think there is a problem but want to be prepared just in > case > > there is one. > > > > The copyright license of the books is a special one that allows > > modification and re-licensing. I think that if you do make changes, such > as > > replacing the images then the new licence has to be the same type of > license > > as the old one. > > > > If you require it then it might be reasonably easy for David to set-up a > > new area for your project. Normally that is done for translations but i > am > > fairly sure it could be done for your teacher's guides. That way you > could > > work at getting higher resolution images for the screen-shots. Some > people > > here might help with it and/or people involved with the teacher's guides > > locally? > > > > I think on TDF lists you can happily be quite rude and say exactly what > you > > need. We are all friends even those of us that appear to argue and > > disagree all the time. > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > --- On Mon, 19/9/11, Danishka Navin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: Danishka Navin <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] High resolution copy of Libo > book > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Monday, 19 September, 2011, 10:36 > > > > Actually I am talking about those books. The National Institute of > > Education, Sri Lanka is going to print 500 books > > to distribute about their staff during up coming LibreOffice training. > > but we need to check whether the resolution is enough for the printing > > purpose. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi :) > > > Thanks Jean, i hadn't realised that would be the issue. The images all > > > look fine to me in the Odf books :) > > > > > > Danishka, the books are mostly available (at least in English(US)) at > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation > > > in Odf as well as Pdf in case that helps. > > > Regards from > > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > ---I found On Thu, 15/9/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] High resolution copy of Libo > > book > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 21:50 > > > > > > Many of the illustrations in the books are low-resolution. Using a > > > different compression when creating a PDF will not help, or not very > > > much. The figures would need to be recreated in a higher resolution. > > > > > > --Jean > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:38, Danishka Navin <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > This is regarding the PDF version of the Libo book already released > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi :) > > > >> When you Export to Pdf you get a choice of "Lossless" compression. > By > > > >> default it is set to jpg compression but lossless is much better. > > > >> Regards from > > > >> Tom :) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> --- On Thu, 15/9/11, Danishka Navin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> From: Danishka Navin <[email protected]> > > > >> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] High resolution copy of Libo > book > > > >> To: [email protected] > > > >> Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 21:11 > > > >> > > > >> Dose any one printed the PDF in a press? > > > >> > > > >> One of government organization ask about the possibility of having > > high > > > >> resolution PDF. > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Danishka Navin > > > >> http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com > > > >> http://twitter.com/danishkanavin > > > >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/ > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > > -- > Danishka Navin > http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/danishkanavin > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/ > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
