Kirsten Milligan wrote:
> And love money, but not from you guys.
I wish I'd hear that more often :-D
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From: "Daibutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag
John Meyer wrote:
I would agree
Daibutt wrote:
> Ok no payment for articles this is a community project. There could be a
> possibility of selling advertising space but that would depend on
> circulation and frequency of the mag. I'm hoping to publish once a month
> if I get enough articles (notice I say If. This will depend on t
Frank Peters wrote:
Sure David, go ahead.
I didn't intend to be obstructive.
I still love this lively discussions...
:-)
Frank
Andrew Jensen wrote:
+1
On 9/26/07, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Go for it David,
Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it.
Best r
John Meyer wrote:
I would agree. I like the idea at least in theory, but a lot of
questions have to be settled both big and small. The issue of file
format, while relatively small, will influence who will read your
magazine and who won't.
Also, are you going to solicit submissions? Are they go
Sure David, go ahead.
I didn't intend to be obstructive.
I still love this lively discussions...
:-)
Frank
Andrew Jensen wrote:
+1
On 9/26/07, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Go for it David,
Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it.
Best regards,
Marbux
On 9
I would agree. I like the idea at least in theory, but a lot of
questions have to be settled both big and small. The issue of file
format, while relatively small, will influence who will read your
magazine and who won't.
Also, are you going to solicit submissions? Are they going to be paid?
Are
+1
A request for comments tends to lead to digressions like the one
on PDF, landscape, etc -- not to be taken as criticism of the
choices made by the person who started the thread. I usually try
to remember to change the subject line when replying to a
digression, but forgot to do so this tim
+1
On 9/26/07, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Go for it David,
>
> Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marbux
>
> On 9/26/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be
Go for it David,
Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it.
Best regards,
Marbux
On 9/26/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be
> decided later on. At the moment I'm just getting the hang of Scrib
Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be
decided later on. At the moment I'm just getting the hang of Scribus.
And yes A4 as I live in the UK and I'm the guy doing the work on it so
I'm doing to my setup it's easier for me. It can always have a letter
format for those
marbux wrote:
A see the beauty of completely controlling all visual aspects of
a publication but the internet is just not the best medium for that as
long as there are browsers that don't adhere to standards.
I couldn't agree more. Were I emperor of the world, graphical web browsers
would nev
On 9/25/07, Frank Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> marbux wrote:
> I don't want to get into an argument about the pros and cons of
> PDF publishing on the web but you're publishing to the web, not to the
> desktop. The web is a more flexible publishing medium with many
> possible user setups r
marbux wrote:
On 9/25/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I read PDF magazines onscreen when I can (eg Linux Journal
Digital), and only print out a few pages to keep for reference.
Landscape orientation means a PDF works very well for both
purposes, but portrait works well only for
On 9/25/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I read PDF magazines onscreen when I can (eg Linux Journal
> Digital), and only print out a few pages to keep for reference.
> Landscape orientation means a PDF works very well for both
> purposes, but portrait works well only for printou
I guess it's a question of taste.
I can see Jean's points.
-f
David wrote:
ye I see what you mean now. Personally I prefer portrait format because
I do print these sort of things but, Landscape is better for reading on
screen. Swings and round-a-abouts depends on what you are using it for
at t
ye I see what you mean now. Personally I prefer portrait format because
I do print these sort of things but, Landscape is better for reading on
screen. Swings and round-a-abouts depends on what you are using it for
at the time. Ideally both formats would be good but, time in making
these is the thi
Frank Peters wrote:
The purpose is very simple a magazine format will give you articles
information from many different sources in one place. It is also a
distributable item that can be printed out I just need to sort some
design elements out to do this. There are lots of reasons why a magazine
i
David,
The purpose is very simple a magazine format will give you articles
information from many different sources in one place. It is also a
distributable item that can be printed out I just need to sort some
design elements out to do this. There are lots of reasons why a magazine
is a good thi
The purpose is very simple a magazine format will give you articles
information from many different sources in one place. It is also a
distributable item that can be printed out I just need to sort some
design elements out to do this. There are lots of reasons why a magazine
is a good thing otherwi
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Daibutt wrote:
Some good points you raise. This is still a learning process for me
and it is good to get feedback from others as there are things I don't
think about because my focus maybe on another area as I'm still
learning Scribus. For Instance I forgot to embed th
I'll do search to see if I can find any thing on it. Thanks for the tip
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 17:58 -0700, marbux wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Another suggestion: perhaps make it landscape instead of portrait
> > orientation? Works much better for read
I will consider land scape ounce I have all the setup sorted on my test
version as I can then transfer most of those basic settings eg graphics
etc. For now I just want to get a basic mag together sort the pdf
printing so the bleeds print. I've had to change to windows as the
Ubuntu stable version
On 9/23/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Another suggestion: perhaps make it landscape instead of portrait
> orientation? Works much better for reading on screen.
Some years back I ran across a guide for optimizing PDFs for viewing in a
web browser via PDF plug-in. I've forgot
Daibutt wrote:
Some good points you raise. This is still a learning process for me and
it is good to get feedback from others as there are things I don't think
about because my focus maybe on another area as I'm still learning
Scribus. For Instance I forgot to embed the fonts but, with someone
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
David wrote:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CGUGKCB8
here is the link where my effort can be downloaded. I need some ideas on
a name and logo for the cover. I've written one article just to give a
feel so far the blank page will be editorial contents and info. I've
setup v
David wrote:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CGUGKCB8
here is the link where my effort can be downloaded. I need some ideas on
a name and logo for the cover. I've written one article just to give a
feel so far the blank page will be editorial contents and info. I've
setup various page templates for
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CGUGKCB8
here is the link where my effort can be downloaded. I need some ideas on
a name and logo for the cover. I've written one article just to give a
feel so far the blank page will be editorial contents and info. I've
setup various page templates for layout just ne
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