Hello, Robinson Tryon wrote on 2013-07-15 16:41:
AFAIK this type of icon has become somewhat pervasive as a generic "PDF" icon (even though it does look a lot/exactly like the old Adobe Acrobat icon :-)
I might not be sensible enough towards the Free PDF Reader topic, but I also think that that icon is a generic one, recognized by everyone. Still, I wanted to share the request with this list.
I don't see a link or text on that page that promotes Adobe Reader. Are there links inside the PDFs we distribute, or?
Neither do I - it seems it's just the logo.
Now that I read more about the PDF Readers campaign, it looks like they want us to link to their page. Right now we just show PDF-esque icons that (along with the text) link to a particular document, and I think this approach is cleanest.
+1
1) Consider replacing the icons with something from here: http://pdfreaders.org/graphics.en.html (perhaps this: http://pdfreaders.org/graphics/pdfreaders-f-22px.png)
I think nobody will recognize it then, but maybe it's just me...
2) Consider putting a single link to the PDF Readers page either on the top of the bottom of the page.
That sounds like a good compromise to me - linking to their campaign, but not changing the logos. The average user will not recognize their logos...
P.S. The idea behind the PDF Readers campaign is interesting, and I wonder if it could be helpful for us to spread adoption of ODF and LibreOffice as well. What do people think about us chatting w/FSFE about running a similar campaign for the ODF family of file formats?
Probably something for the marketing list to discuss :) Florian -- To unsubscribe 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/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
