[Qgis-user] Brochure draft for QGIS 1.1

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Hi Anita

Great improvements! A couple more small comments :-)

- Do we need to show the version number in the title? If we leave it
out it will require less maintenance to keep the document current.

- Do you have verdana / vermana or arial font on your system? The sans
serif font is definately better but now for me the document is looking
a little horizontally squashed with the one that you are using...

- in the final block with urls, could you bold the 'header' words and
colons on the left to visually separate the item name from the item
details?

- I suggest to remove the "- ..." entry from the plugins list and / or
change it to read  "- and many others"

- In platform support I guess we should change "windows xp" to
"windows" since AFAIK it will work on new (and older probably)
versions of windows too.

Regards

Tim

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Anita Graser<anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi Tim!
>
> I followed your suggestions and uploaded a new version:
> http://www.students.oamk.fi/~t5jama01/div/qgis_brochure_new_v1.pdf
>
> On screen sans serif fonts definitely look better. I'll try to get the
> brochures printed the next days and compare those results.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
>
> Am 14.07.2009, 08:13 Uhr, schrieb Mailing Lists <lists at linfiniti.com>:
>
>> Hi Anita
>>
>> Great to see you refreshing the brochure. I have various comments /
>> suggestions:
>>
>> - In the heading I suggest to remove the third line of links (which
>> are repeated at the end of the document) and instead make the second
>> line read: "Open Source Geographical Information System -
>> http://qgis.org"
>>
>> - I also suggest to center the second line under the part after the Q
>> logo of QGIS.
>>
>> - What about moving the screenshot on page 1 right to the start so
>> that the first thing you see when you see the doc is the QGIS title
>> and a screenie, and then the text that follows?
>>
>> - could you use a sans serif font for the non heading text? Generally
>> I find serif fonts look a bit old fashioned and not as 'clean'. It
>> would be interesting to see how it looks anyway so that we can compare
>> against the current serif version you have made.
>>
>> - change "Project Administrator" to "Project Chairman"
>>
>> - change the link in the box at the end of the document for qgis home
>> page to http://qgis.org
>>
>>
>> Great work Anita!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Anita Graser<anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> For QGIS1.1, I redesigned the current brochure and added new Screenshots
>>> (including a shot of fTools). I've been working with Scribus.
>>> A pdf of the brochure can be downloaded here:
>>> http://www.students.oamk.fi/~t5jama01/div/qgis_brochure_new.pdf
>>> I would love to get feedback on how you think the brochure and other QGIS
>>> materials could be improved. Do you have wishes for additional
>>> presentation
>>> material? We can collect ideas in the wiki:
>>> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Community_Resources#Press_Centre
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Anita
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>>> Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>



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