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

[Alex Mandel]

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