On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > In case you are not following the discussion on the dev list, Juergen, > the 4.0 Release Manager, has proposed an endgame schedule for the AOO > 4.0 release: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201306.mbox/%3C51C16876.402%40gmail.com%3E > > The date relevant to the logo is Monday July 1th. That is the > deadline for getting the logo changes integrated into Subversion for > the OpenOffice product. > > Changes on the website and social networking don't have a hard > deadline and can come later, perhaps synched up with the actual > release of AOO 4.0, which is planned for later in July. > > So what needs to be done? > > 1) Kevin said he wanted to make some fine tuning of the text kerning > in the logo. > > 2) Alexandro said something about adjusting the colors. But I'm not > certain I understood that correctly. > > 3) We need to update the graphics in the product. And there are a lot > of them, around 25 of them, which I've laboriously transcribed onto > the wiki: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Product+Logo+Use > > Most of them will be simple. It is just a matter of replacing one > logo with another, and preserving the right formats, dimensions, color > depths, etc. > > A few exceptions, of placements which will require some more thought: > > a) The splash screen is here: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/default_images/introabout/intro.png > > It has integrated text and graphics and the text is rather ugly. Can > we do better here? This is a place where some "wow" is appropriate.
Consider (1) Take the logo SVG (2) Add "4" (3) Scale to the 550 x 365 px size. (4) Add updated and well written text in the same font. (5) Add quality Apache Feather. (6) Include trademark. (7) Cool contextual graphics? (8) Create a PNG from the SVG. Regards, Dave > > b) Some of the placements have "high contrast" versions, needed for > when this mode is enabled in the operating system. This improves > visibility for users with low vision. For example: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/default_images/framework/res/backing_hc.png > > I think we need to consult with someone with expertise in this to know > exactly what we should be doing here. > > c) This is from the SDK install: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/instsetoo_native/inc_sdkoo/windows/msi_templates/Binary/Image.bmp > > As you can see it is a more elaborate, 3D image showing > "OpenOffice.org" in the title bar. This will require someone skilled > with their graphics editor to replace that text and make it look > natural. Or redo the image. > > So plenty of work to do here for anyone who is good with a graphics > editor and wants to help. > > But first we need Kevin and Alexandro to make their changes to the > master SVG. After that we can work in parallel on the remaining > pieces. > > The master SVG, from Chris, is here: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/marketing/art/galleries/logos/aoo-working/ > > We have a little more than a week to do this, so can I strongly > suggest that Kevin and Alexandro make their changes ASAP, and by > Monday June 24th at the latest? > > Thanks! > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
