[us-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Pamphlet

Thanks Carl and Drew: (Carl -- your points on the bottom of this post)

Drew:

Le 2011-02-09 11:28, drew a écrit :
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 10:16 -0500, Marc Paré wrote:
> > I have been cooperating with another member on a LibreOffice pamphlet
> > that could be used at conferences. Here is our latest iteration. I still
> > have a couple of things that need to be done/checked on it:
> >
> > 1. I wanted to verify if this statement is true as it is written on the
> > pamphlet:
> >
> > "LibreOffice is the first large office suite, which uses the new OASIS
> > OpenDocument Format 1.2 as the default storage format, the future
> > international standard for office software."
>
> False. it is not the first.

I have modified this section to correct this.

> > =====
> >
> > 2. In this paragraph:
> >
> > "The OASIS is supported by all major manufacturers in the information
> > technology, including Computer Associates, EDS, IBM, Oracle, Novell and
> > Microsoft. OpenDocument Format is supported by the European Commission
> > and is recommended as a document exchange format.  Through the
> > OpenDocument Format, files can be easily viewed or edited with the many
> > programs that support this format as well."
>
> This paragraph and the one before it are not quite accurate. I can give
> you a suggestion on a fix. (see below)

I think you forgot to mention the fix. We could have Italo look at as I 
think he is part of the Oasis membership. Unless someone has a 
suggestion. It would be nice to keep some of the names of particular 
OASIS supporters. I have added Google.

> > I was wondering if I should add Google to this list as well and are
> > there any other major players that should be mentioned.
>
> Google does support ODF.

Done. May change depending on edits to the OASIS paragraphs.

> > At the same time, should there be a note on trademark seeing as these
> > names are appearing on the pamphlet; if so can someone suggest a short
> > sentence?
>
> It wouldn't hurt - you can put them all in a very tiny text box with
> their TM notifications in the footer of the back panel, BE SURE to
> include the TDF trademark for LbreOffice BTW, at least that is how I
> would do it, and not mess with it in the body text.

I have added a similar sentence used in the "Getting Started With 
LibreOffice 3.3" manual.

> > ============
> >
> > 3. Could someone proof the pamphlet? Check to see if the description of
> > the 6 applications are good enough (the descriptions were pulled from
> > the website to add consistency).
>
> Just looked it over - there are a couple of changes that need to be made
> (from above), and a few others I would recommend.

Thanks.


> > =============
> >
> > 4. The application icons. I left a message on the design mailing list.
> > But as of this writing there was still no answer. Are these the right
> > icons? If so, do they look OK? I could not find any link to the LibO
> > icon set on our Marketing wiki pages ... IMO ... they should show there
> > as they are a working part of our section.
>
> These are the only official application icons, for the TDF version of
> LibO. You could use the new mime-type icons however. The application
> icons are changing, but I'm almost certain they are not in any locked
> down state yet.

Thanks for the icon set. They look great! Ahhh, yes ... white space. Doh!

Drew: I made further changes. The Icons were not lined in a nice 
vertical line. So I changed the Horizontal/Vertical attributes to 
Horizontal .51cm and Vertical .68 while retaining the white space. The 
icons now look better when looking at them. The text in all 6 
applications was put in proportional spacing which left a lot of 
"rivers" and extremely spaced out words ... I made these into rag-right 
which closed up the gaps.
> Drew

Carl:

I have applied all of your corrections.

RE: Writer -- re: desktop publishing ... there is a book writing 
module/extension with accompanying styles that was recently released. I 
believe that this was warmly received by many authors using LibreOffice. 
Maybe leave the Writer descriptions as is?

Re: BASE -- adding info on the backend. I have tried to move text around 
but there is just not enough space left. Should we just leave it as is? 
Can anyone add a short blurb on backend? That particular paragraph -- I 
think I can squeeze another 8 words in there.

New location for the file: 
www.parentreprise.com/images/LibreOffice/LibOPamphlet04-mime_icons.odt

Marc




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