Le 14/05/13 04:59 PM, Jean Weber a écrit :
On 15/05/2013, at 6:21, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
Great! So let's go with this as the final version.
I have uploaded this version to the wiki corresponding wiki page:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt
I will be back with the other brochure sizes filled in with the text:
Community A4
Official USLtr
Official A4
We will not have to look at the text but only look at the formatting on the
page/hyphenation which will make our job a lot easier and quicker to do.
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The last item for this brochure-type will be to do a .pdf version. For this
version type. I would suggest we do this after we have completed all of the
brochure types; the .pdf version is less pressing and I am not sure if we
should expend the amount of energy working on the .pdf version with clickable
links at this time. We are in more drastic need for the printable brochures
than the .pdf versions.
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For printing purposes, you absolutely want a PDF. It need not be one with
clickable links, intended for viewing. But it is essential for printing. Any
person or commercial printer can handle PDF.
No problem with putting up the 4 brochure .pdf versions, I will make the
versions and post them. I will take care of this so that we can have
similar wiki file location URL's for all of the brochure-types. It will
make it that much easier to find/predict their respective URL'S on the
wiki.
I've uploaded the .pdf and left it as a response to this post.
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As a point of discussion on the printing of .pdf's from .odt:
I was hoping to promote our .odt file format and hope that the people
who download and print brochures would decide on their own to create the
.pdf brochure should they see a need for doing so. This way, we would be
assured that the person(s) would at least be using an ODF-compatible
wordprocessor.
This is more of a philosophical view of posting our materials and less
of practicality. Does it make it more difficult to print out our
brochures? Well yes, if you consider that some may just download the
.pdf version and go to print with Adobe Reader or another .pdf reader,
and, not even bother having a version of LibreOffice on their system.
But IMO, I would then rather see people use LibreOffice or another .odt
compatible wordprocessor do the work. This will at least ensure that our
product and format stand out as a good solid and professional working
format from which to work. It would help in establishing the ODF
standard as a gold standard in office formats.
We need to start displacing the .pdf format and we, the juggernaut that
we are, are well placed to do this; there are really only 2 elephants in
the room left and its LibreOffice and MSO.
We can't keep saying that the ODF standard is the best of office suite
standards and then make use of the Adobe .pdf file to print our
products. We are well placed to encourage/influence more printing houses
to host LibreOffice solutions on their premises for printing purposes.
The first question users should say to their printing houses is "Do you
service/support LibreOffice ODF printing?" If the demand is there, the
service will follow. By continuing to make use of .pdf formats, we are
diminishing the demand of service for our own product.
We use LibreOffice in-house for our production work and we know it's
strength as a serious work tool.
IMO, we should start making our influence felt where we can. This will
also strengthen our product with groups who are considering adoption of
our suite as they will see our resolve to make the ODF formats more of
the office format standard of choice.
Marc
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