On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/07/2013 16:11, Robinson Tryon wrote: > >> I was under the impression that the red trefoil on white was an Adobe >> icon/trademark, e.g. as displayed here: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format > > The Adobe icon has the red trefoil with Adobe or Acrobat (older > versions) on it, while the format icon has the red trefoil with PDF on > it. Of course, the two icons were studied in a subtle way, in order to > have the format icon different enough (full square instead of sheet of > paper with folded angle, different text) but also similar enough (red > trefoil and red colour) to associate them visually.
Yes, they are indeed close! >> The implementation goals of the campaign do seem a bit fuzzy; in >> particular, I'm not exactly sure what they wanted us to do with the >> icons. I thought that the smaller icons were just to demarcate >> individual PDF files, but reading their graphics page more closely, it >> looks like they intended them to be used to link back to PDF Readers >> as well. > > Unfortunately, there is a huge confusion between the Adobe software and > the PDF format, as both use the same name (although one is proprietary > software and the other a free open standard). If there is continued confusion between the red trefoil and Adobe's products, perhaps a replacement should be considered? (Although that's probably a discussion for a PDF-specific mailing list... :-) >> A different discussion, yes, but a related one (and I figured I'd >> mention the idea before I forgot about it... :-) > > Right, I suppose that we can start discussing it now on the marketing > mailing list - and find partners - to launch it at the conference in > Milan (if possible). Sounds good. I'll send an email to the marketing mailing list to kick things off. Thanks! --R -- 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
