From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fundraising |
Date: | 2003-06-30 06:48:09 |
Message-ID: | 200306300748.09740.dev@archonet.com |
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On Sunday 29 Jun 2003 7:47 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Elein, Rod:
> > Import or export. I think the idea was for the CD label, insert, and/or
> > brochure to be in OOo format. My preferences for the logo would be png
> > then jpeg. I avoid gif as much as possible.
>
> Correct ... I was talking about the CD cover, not the logo.
>
> BTW, the patent on GIF expires sometime real soon (i.e within the month),
> or has already expired, which will actually make it a safer format than
> png, which could still run afoul of a hidden patent. Ironic, hey?
Not so fast there citizen - iirc the patent on LZW as it applies to image
compression expired the other day. There might still be a patent covering the
use of white and black pixels to simulate gray somewhere.
> If our volunteer (anybody? Bueller?) doesn't like OOo Draw for making CD
> covers, then you could use Kontour, which is another OSS vector-drawing
> program. I'd love to provide SXD-format labels from OOo project, but can't
> seem to locate any -- only the finished products in PNG.
>
> The idea is that whatever format we use, it should be something that anyone
> in our community can read and modify, without needing to re-create from
> scratch in order to change the text, or to purchase expensive proprietary
> software.
Something readable in OOo would be nice - does Kontour run on Windows on
cygwin? What about the mac?
I'd think the funding money would be well spent on a professionally designer
to come up with templates for some standard handouts. Might not be cheap
though, especially since we'd need to consider internationalisation issues.
--
Richard Huxton
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