[Open-graphics] Open Graphics publicity: wrote some stuff for you to check.

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 3/18/07, Carlo Salinari <csali at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Ok, I'm nitpicking, but:
>
> 1) a white background for the board picture would give a much more
> "professional" feel (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project)

I tried to mess with it in GIMP, but I have neither the proper tools
nor the proper skill.  I put another copy of that image (extracted
from the ODT file) here, so someone else might take a crack at it:

http://www.traversaltech.com/ogd1_press/ogd1_photo.png

> 2) maybe the picture and the layout image should have the same orientation

Maybe.  And if we want to do it that way, I could just grab the
wikipedia image.  Do we want those labels in this document?

> 3) the layout image shouldn't be boxed: it adds unnecessary "visual-noise"

That's apparently part of the image.... I'll think about it.  :)

> 4) there are a gaps in the capital letters sequence (I and K skipped)

Yes, there are.  :)

> Aaaah. There's nothing like pouring your daily poison-dose into the
> list. Feel *much* better now.

Heh.

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Timothy Normand Miller
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