Re: ad for linux magazine

[Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl>]

Hi Vinicius,

Thanks for doing this, wish we had known you'd be working on it before Willem-Jan
started working on it :)

Anyway, the png is too small (we need A4 with a 3mm blead-out as specified on the
design list, which you're on) so please send over the source material and/or create
a slightly larger png.

At 300 dpi, we'd need at least 2550x3576 pixels!

Also, i'm not sure if sending print work in bitmap is the best option, I prefer
to send vector-based (pdf/eps).

I hope you can have a look at this asap, because in its current form it does
not conform to the format the magazine publisher requires :(

Next time, please do _ALWAYS_ send source material so we can make minor adjustments
as I fear you are now in a different timezone and asleep, so can't make the 
adjustments :(

I'll try and hack it with the gimp, and ask if 300 dpi is enough. If not we'll
have to run with the other ad.

Gr,

Koen

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:38:45PM -0300, Vinicius Depizzol wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I made a pretty quick an A4 ad. I hope there's still time to use it.
> 
> The file is a PNG with 300 dpi -- excellent for printing [1].
> I didn't find a way to export it to PDF without get a 77mb file (!) in
> Inkscape. The original SVG got quite big as well. If you need the
> sources, send me an email ;).
> 
> I also used less text than the original suggestion. I think this way
> the ad fits better in the A4 size.
> 
> [1] the file got 3.2mb. Since it didn't work to send as an attachment,
> this is the link:
> 
> http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1365/linuxmagazine.png
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 19:49, Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Willem-Jan has been so kind to donate his evening to meet a deadline of friday
> > may 14th, to create an A4 ad to appear in various linux magazines across Europe.
> >
> > It's a bit short notice, but just to be sure we didn't completely mess up here
> > are the files for your review:
> >
> > http://fe2.nl/gnome/a4-add.svg
> > http://fe2.nl/gnome/a4-add.png
> >
> > There is no time for an extensive feedback round unfortunately, as the deadline
> > is really tight. We can make small changes perhaps in the first few ours of
> > the morning (CET) of friday, but if there's something that radically has to
> > be changed we better cancel this one and go for a later edition (which would
> > give us less exposure).
> >
> > Ok, happy to hear from you! We're off to get some sleep :)
> >
> > Gr,
> >
> > Koen
> >
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> 
> 
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