Thanks for your suggestions!

On 29.08.2006 00:51:09 Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi Jeremias.
> 
> Jeremias Maerki:
> > Thanks, Andreas, Manuel, Jay, Vincent, Glen, Simon, for all your
> > suggestions, corrections and nitpicking. I've incorporated almost all
> > points. The new version is now uploaded at the same location as before.
> 
> Nice looking poster!  I have some suggestions, too:
> 
>   - If you can, I think a font nicer than Verdana could be used.  It’s
>     an OK display font, but doesn’t look good on a printed page, IMO.
>     The fonts bundled with Vista are particularly nice, if you have
>     access to them[1,2].

I printed it in real size and it doesn't look bad IMO. I don't have the
Vista fonts. Anyway, I chose Verdana because the original ASF logo uses
Verdana and I didn't want to use too many different fonts on the poster.
Three are enough I think.

>   - Can FOP automatically do ligatures?  If so, you should enable it.
>     Otherwise manually replace the characters in the document (“fi” with
>     “?”, etc.).

No. :-(

>   - In the “Transformation chain” box, the “Transformation” word under
>     the arrow bumps into the yellow layout box.  I’m unsure about the
>     use of the word “exemplary” in here, too.
> 
>   - I don’t think the word “Banks” should be capitalised in the “Use
>     Cases” box.
> 
>   - In “Project History”, “was quickly adopted by many” sounds better
>     than “quickly got adopted by many”.  Also “prevented important
>     features to be implemented” -> “prevent important features from
>     being implemented”.
> 
>   - It is hard to read the “For more details, please visit …” white text
>     on the light blue background.
> 
> I particularly like the business card example!
> 
> Cameron
> 
> [1] http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
> [2] http://digg.com/software/The_New_Vista_Fonts
> 
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