I do not think the proposed interior design is suitable, for several reasons including the ink/toner issue. The coloured headers and footers are also IMO unnecessary. They will most definitely NOT be used for the printed guides, regardless of whether people want to use it (or a modified version) for the free PDFs.
--Jean On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Peter Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I have had a look at the designs, but would like to raise one point. > > Are the designs going to be used in all types of LO user guides or are they > only going to be used for the printed user guides that users can purchase? > > What concerns me is the design for the pages inside a user guide - the > headers and footers. The design at the moment would use too much ink or toner > if a user printed their own user guides they have downloaded. Also, in my > opinion, coloured headers and footers will be overpowering if used on every > page. Plain header and footers make a page more user eye friendly. > > Regards > > PeterS > > Peter Schofield > [email protected] > > > On 26 Jan 2013, at 15:36, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> I like the book-covers as they are. On my current screen some of the >> colours look a bit off but that's fairly clearly the monitor i'm using. >> Draw's yellow looks a little dull but i'm sure it's usually a heavier, >> richer golden (redish gold rather than the cheap bright gold sold at >> high-street jewellery stores). Calc's green looks a lot too pale and yet >> fluorescent. On other monitors i'm sure it's stronger and darker. Both a >> lot more like the blue of Writer or the purple of Base. >> >> Hmm, now i check the icons off the menus on this machine i see they look the >> same. So it is this machine's monitor. >> >> I've thought a lot about the layout too but finally realised that the way it >> is looks quite perfect. I wondered about the title and the main icon being >> further up the page but i really like the way the main icon stands on the >> smaller icons showing the other modules/apps. Then if the title was much >> higher, say halfway between the main icon and the top-bar, then it would be >> tooo far away from the main icon. Also moving the smaller icons up a bit >> would just look awkward. At the moment they are well grounded on that >> footer-bar. >> >> So, the design made me look at it for a while, which makes it a success imo. >> If people think it's a little strange somehow but can't quite put their >> finger on it and end up thinking or even better, arguing and discussing it >> then it raises the profile and makes even more people aware of the guides. >> A definite winner! >> >> I think i would like to buy these just to be able to physically hold the >> book and see how it felt in my hands. So, very much a winner! >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2013, 1:23 >>> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: My version of proposed covers for >>> LO v4.0 user guides >>> >>> For reference, K-J's original proposals are here: >>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:K-j/Drafts/Concept-GIn#Documentation >>> >>> I am now looking at cover sheets (title pages) for the stand-alone >>> chapters. When I have something to show you, I will put samples on the >>> same pages linked below. >>> >>> --Jean >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I have modified Klaus-Juergen's proposed designs and put my versions here: >>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/TemplateForV4 >>>> (GS samples in PNG, plus source files in SVG) >>>> >>>> and here: >>>> http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/getting-started/draft-lo-4.0 >>>> (GS sample only, PNG) >>>> >>>> Notes regarding the back cover: I've left quite a bit of blank space >>>> at the bottom for the barcode, and I have removed the footer text, >>>> which would have been partially obscured by the barcode when the cover >>>> is reduced from A4 to 6x9-inch size for the printed books. I may >>>> further modify the text. >>>> >>>> K-J: Please note that the label "Impress" is missing from one of the >>>> icons in the row of icons on the back and front cover. I added it on >>>> the GS front cover, but I have not yet added it on the other versions >>>> of the row of icons because I wasn't sure how to do that where it is >>>> greyed. (I'm not very experienced with using Inkscape or other SVG >>>> editors.) >>>> >>>> Yes, I know that decisions regarding v4.0 branding may mean that these >>>> covers will be a bit out of date. However, I'm running out of time and >>>> wanted to have something to use. It's easy to substitute covers later, >>>> if necessary. >>>> >>>> Comments welcome. >>>> >>>> --Jean -- 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
