Hi folks,
Paul W. Frields wrote:
The Red Hat Summit planning group is going to have an extra sign made up
for Fedora featuring some quotations from the excellent press coverage
we've been getting. Kara is working on pulling some quotes for this
purpose.
So here's another update. I got all the designs that were due today
done. Here are the ones to label the conference rooms:
- preview:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/fudcon-signs.png
- source:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Scribus%20Source/FUDcon-Signage-Source.sla
- printer-ready:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Printer-Ready/FUDcon-Signage-Hackfest.pdf
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Printer-Ready/FUDcon-Signage-Lounge.pdf
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Printer-Ready/FUDcon-Signage-PresentationsAndHackfest.pdf
And here's the large quote poster:
- preview:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/FUDcon-poster-f9quotes_preview.png
- source:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Scribus%20Source/FUDcon-poster-f9quotes.sla
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Scribus%20Source/f9banner-better.png
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Scribus%20Source/f9banner-better.svg
I'm working on a sign for FUDpub now. (Paul Staffer's suggestion - good
idea!) I figure we can print those full color on letter paper (or maybe
I can get some thicker stuff that'll go thru the printers here) so we
can have a lot of them.
Some lessons learned from this project:
- Scribus 1.3.4 in Fedora is suboptimal. Bleeds and eps/pdf transparency
don't work in this version. mrdoc from #scribus on freenode has a Fedora
repo that will let you install Scribus 1.3.5 which is much better:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_8/
- Apparently (I'm not 100% sure on this but I sure couldn't get it to
work) EPS does not support transparency. At all. So I ended up using PDF
1.4 for the printer-ready artwork. Hopefully they'll be okay with that.
- Rendering bitmaps that are 56" x 48" from inkscape is DAMN SLOW. Also,
it won't work at 300 dpi. I ended up doing 150 dpi. If I had the time, I
would have 'tiled' the renders meaning I could have broken the image out
into 4 chunks and rendered each individually at 300 dpi and stitched
them together later. I didn't have the time though (and seeing how
slowly working with the full 150dpi render in gimp on a machine with 2GB
RAM, I'm not sure stitching together the 300 dpi tiles would have been
very easy!) So I had the 150 dpi image render overnight. I used the
inkscape command line to do this too so I knew it was still working. So
if you need to do large-scale artwork like this and you want it to be
blingy past Scribus' SVG capabilities, make sure you have at least one
overnight to get renders done.
- Workflow & Colors: I'm not sure if the colors will come out right but
we'll see. For the conference room signs, pretty much all the design
work is done in Scribus, so I set the Fedora CMYK values in the color
palette in the document. When I imported the FUDcon logo SVG artwork,
Scribus lets you replace colors so I replaced the RGB colors with the
correct CMYK colors. That was easy. The quotes poster's artwork is a lot
more complicated and there is NO WAY scribus can import the SVG for that
artwork, so I rendered it to bitmap and imported it into scribus, and
set the documents target to be 'for printer' rather than 'for
web/screen' and also set it to use color management. We'll see how it
comes out!
~m
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