> On Saturday 12 December 2009 06:20:44 Andy Brown 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. > > I agree with Alexandro, avoid Writer, use Draw it's much more suited to > DTP work and much easier to edit later on.
And I emphatically disagree with that. Draw is a PITA to work in. For DTP, Writer is so much better. You have many of the features of Pagemaker available in Writer, but as far as I can see not in Draw (for example, linked frames which can be several pages apart, just like in "proper" DTP software. There is more...). > > Chjeers > GL > > > > 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 colour > > > > This 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 - John > > > > I have posters and disk ready to ship, it is the flyers that are holding > > me up. > > > > -- > > Andy > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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