On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Andy Brown <a...@the-martin-byrd.net> wrote:
John McCreesh wrote:I agree with Alexandro - I prefer the more graphical look of the "Education Flyer". I think this particular flyer is good, although I think it could be improved by targeting the message better, and making more use of the available space. I also believe we should avoid proprietary software to create marketing materials, especially when the pdfs they create do not print correctly on the most common Linux pdf viewer :(The pamphlet/flyers/whatever you want to call them, should be done in Writer. That way anyone that needs them can make the appropriate changes for they locale and print them out.
Writer is an awful tool to do DTP, I would rather use Draw 100 times more than writer. However there are other tools such as inkscpe and Scribus that allow for better interaction with vectorial design.
As an early warning, for our 2010 marketing work I'll be looking to source some new brochures for conferences etc. There was some off-line discussion about this at OOoCon - one suggestion that went down well was to go 'mix and match'. So, we'd have a high quality, global, 'language neutral' folder - think http://www.folderprinting.co.uk/a4-folders.html - which we would use with inserts as appropriate: - for a small event - e.g. at a university - a local team could print out / photocopy black and white A4 inserts in the local language - for a large consumer event we could have one insert per 'application' (Writer, Calc, etc) printed full colourThis may work for a large venue but what I am looking at is maybe 100 or 200 to send to university for an event they are having.The folder could also contain a product DVD if appropriate. Feedback welcomed - would this work? Thanks - JohnI have posters and disk ready to ship, it is the flyers that are holding me up.
I guess the art list would be the best to address, explain the template that you want to see, background on the event and get ready to evaluate the design proposals.
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