Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (126 mails)

["Karl Cheney" <kcheney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James:

My understanding is that A4 is the "required" alternative and requested size. 
The closest equivalent to US Legal (8.5" x 14") is B4 (10.12" x 14.33"). Even 
if we could use US Legal in Europe, copy would still need be deleted because 
the width is a half inch shorter and the length is almost 2 inches shorter than 
what the existing layout calls for. The reason for the current size is to fit 
all the content.

- Karl

 
 
> > > James Mason <bear454@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 6/9/2011 08:42 AM >>> 
Seeing the PDF preview, it would make much more sense to have
avialable in a US Legal format (8.5" x 14") than US Letter (8.5"x11").
 No need to remove anything!

- James Mason 'bear454'



On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2011 01:14:03 Karl Cheney wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > When flat, the current brochure layout (see attached) is 15.88" x 9" (or
> > 40.3cm x 22.9cm) and includes 4 panels. To convert this to an A4 size the
> > dimensions drop to 11.69" x 8.27" (or 29.7cm x 21cm). A huge difference &
> > would require a re-design to accommodate only 3 panels. An entire section
> > would need to be removed.
> >
> >  When I say "entire section" I'm specifically referring to one of the intro
> > panels ("Something for Everyone" or "Welcome to openSUSE"). If one of
> > these could be removed, then the inside ("What's Cool About openSUSE")
> > could remain fairly intact--although, some editing would have to happen.
> >
> > Regarding the black & white version, we can do that. I don't think it'll
> > look great, but it's doable & we'll make it look as good as b/w can look.
> > Would this mean no pictures, no background color, nothing? Or would we
> > have to make the pictures b/w & turn the background to a grayscale?
> >
> > Also, as has been said before, when localizing, the copy will have to be
> > edited as most languages take up more space than English does. I'm
> > attaching a document with the text as it currently is so you can see what
> > we're dealing with. Until I know exactly how you want to proceed it's hard
> > for me to tell you how many words to cut for localization. But, what I can
> > tell you for certain is that one of the two intro panels will have to go
> > to fit on an A4 sheet.
> >
> > If you'd like to discuss this on the phone, let me know & I'll set up a
> > call.
>
> Let me ask the marketing team for opinions. What panel could we remove? Or is
> it realistic to expect to be able to print on Letter format in Europe and
> everywhere else? Because if that's not a huge deal, we don't have to cut
> anything...
>
> When it comes to the text, I'll try and shorten it a bit in the coming days.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jos
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Karl


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