[Live-demo] North American printing of discs - is the artwork ready?

[Astrid Emde]

On Fri, March 25, 2011 9:29 pm, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 03/25/2011 12:44 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>
>> On 03/25/2011 12:54 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex Mandel schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Team,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In about 24 hours Tyler is planning to order 750 discs of OSGeo
>>>> Live 4.5
>>>> in the North American market. I was hoping Astrid or someone else
>>>> involved with the artwork could double check that the non FOSSGIS
>>>> version is done, available and provide the link here so we can get
>>>> that to Tyler.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You can find the non-FOSSGIS artwork at:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/artwork/backgrounds/4.5
>>>
>>>
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/artwork/sleeve/4.5
>>>
>>>
>>> It should be ok. But if you find any errors, please let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> I linked to the artwirk in the wiki on the page Live_GIS_Disc:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Artwork
>>>
>>>
>>> Astrid
>>>
>>
>> Astrid,
>>
>>
>> I'm looking at the template from our printer. They want a 1417 x 1417
>> pixel (4.723 x 4.723 inches) image at 300 dpi. I can make that from the
>> psd or xcf but both of those seem to be missing the shadow behind the
>> OSGeo logo that makes it pop. We also realized that it should probably
>> say OSGeo Live like the cover art. It's a bigger deal for the North
>> American printing because we're only using the disc label for cost
>> saving reasons.
>>
>> I'm also planning to add the url http://live.osgeo.org under the logo.
>>
>>
>> Do you have time to make these changes or can you provide the updated
>> psd/xcf? Maybe I'm just missing something like a filter for the logo
>> since I don't have Photoshop and just have GIMP?
>>
>> Working on it right now so we can get the order in.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>
>
> Never mind looks like I got it. Just need to apply a drop shadow. Though
> I couldn't edit the text for some reason so I ended up exporting the
> background layer to inkscape and recreating the text with the OSGeo Live
> logo.
>
> Posting to svn shortly.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

Hi Alex,

sorry - I read your mail too late. I had the same problem with the textes
too. Caro created the files with Photoshop and with Gimp you do not have
access to the textes anymore. so it is fine to work on the export to
inkscape.

I had a look at the new versions. They look fine.

Astrid