[Marketing] marketing brochure

[Jody Garnett]

Brian I had a terrible couple of weeks before foss4g boston using scribus
for the one page handouts. The teams produces results that were visually
inconsistent and their work had to be redone so that all the output had the
logos and so on in a consistent fashion.

When you say Scribus get's good reviews ... can I ask from where? It
certainly works but it honestly reminded me of desktop publishing solutions
on an an Amiga 4000.

We can go through some old email where Antia Graser worked really hard
evaluating options and getting scribus to work.  We also had our graphics
designer give it a go but it was too slow/frustrating given the timeframe.

- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2017-September/003967.html

The other option that folks discussed in that thread was InkScape, however
it was producing SVG output that could not be used in the browsers due to a
difference in SVG standard support. Sadly at the time it was also producing
PDF output inconsistently.
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 16:07, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> Hi - Here in California/USA  Adobe products are certainly very popular,
> and I use them myself (old purchase). However, the FOSS desktop publishing
> suite Scribus also gets good reviews.  Is it truly the only forward, to use
> inDesign for the brochures?  The fonts can be used in any case.
>
>   cheers --Brian
> On 12/2/19 6:39 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> I have been resisting taking on any more activities until my term as
> Director was up. With today's announcement I have some more capacity :)
>
> Astrid you mentioned wanted to update the osgeo brochure last year, and we
> did not have any members available with access to InDesign. The economics
> of using scribus did not work out for us (when we had access to a graphic
> designer it was better to use a WYIWYG tool to take advantage of their
> training).
>
> I would be willing to do the update, if the marketing committee was able
> to provide an InDesign license. In the past I purchased proprietary fonts
> when they were mandated by our logo design, however InDesign is a more
> expensive commitment.
>
> a) InDesign US$239.88/yr
> b) InDesign US$31.49/mo, only subscribe when needed?
>
> Another good approach is:
>
> c) Contact GetInteractive and set up a time and materials contract
> d) Ask on our mailing list if anyone else has access to InDesign and would
> be willing to do the work.
>
> Please reply with your preference, and any discussion. I feel we should
> make a motion this calendar year while we have marketing budget to work
> with.
>
> aside: I was able to make use of scribus for some of our one page
> handouts, porting content from a number of projects for a consistent
> appearance. It was a very frustrating learning curve, but I think I can
> safely update these now.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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