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.

I think mizmo reads this list, but if not I've cc'd the Artwork list.
Mo, would the Artwork project be able to help us with a simple design
for a sign?

I've already alerted the Summit folks that we need to know:

1. file format required
2. size target for the sign
3. any other requirements from the signage producers

I hope to have the quotes ready on Thursday morning. Would you guys be
able to produce something by, say, Friday morning?


Sure

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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.

I think mizmo reads this list, but if not I've cc'd the Artwork list.
Mo, would the Artwork project be able to help us with a simple design
for a sign?

I've already alerted the Summit folks that we need to know:

1. file format required
2. size target for the sign
3. any other requirements from the signage producers

I hope to have the quotes ready on Thursday morning. Would you guys be
able to produce something by, say, Friday morning?


Sure

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Hey peeps,

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 an update to keep you all in the loop:

- We're going to need 4 sign designs for FUDcon:
-- 1 large quote sign, 44x56 inches (quotes below)
-- 3 conference room signs, 22x28 inches:
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Hackfest"
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Presentations / Hackfest"
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Lounge"

The file/format requirements are as follows:
- Full quarter inch bleed
- CMYK color (need scribus!)
- EPS (need scribus!)

My workflow is probably going to be to do NO ALPHA GRADIENT artwork in
Inkscape (Scribus doesn't like alpha gradients :-p), and keep the text
and fills/gradients for the BG in Scribus. Because our deadline is tight
on this I'm starting work NOW; I'll be in #fedora-art and likely will be
posting works in progress there so if you're interested in helping out
you're welcome to join in.


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Hey peeps,

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 an update to keep you all in the loop:

- We're going to need 4 sign designs for FUDcon:
-- 1 large quote sign, 44x56 inches (quotes below)
-- 3 conference room signs, 22x28 inches:
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Hackfest"
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Presentations / Hackfest"
--- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Lounge"

The file/format requirements are as follows:
- Full quarter inch bleed
- CMYK color (need scribus!)
- EPS (need scribus!)

My workflow is probably going to be to do NO ALPHA GRADIENT artwork in
Inkscape (Scribus doesn't like alpha gradients :-p), and keep the text
and fills/gradients for the BG in Scribus. Because our deadline is tight
on this I'm starting work NOW; I'll be in #fedora-art and likely will be
posting works in progress there so if you're interested in helping out
you're welcome to join in.


~m

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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:13:51AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> - We're going to need 4 sign designs for FUDcon:
> -- 1 large quote sign, 44x56 inches (quotes below)
> -- 3 conference room signs, 22x28 inches:
> --- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Hackfest"
> --- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Presentations / Hackfest"
> --- FUDCon Boston 2008 logo + Text: "Lounge"

This is not at all vital, but it would also be nice to have some sort of
"Welcome to FUDPub" poster design to greet people at the pub like we did
last year.

I have an HP Designjet 4000ps here, so I could take care of printing this
one myself, if someone else can provide their artistic design talents. It
would need to be designed for 42"xN", where N is whatever makes the
proportions look right.

Let me know if anyone feels like tackling this. If there's not time, no big
deal.

cheers,
- Paul

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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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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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Máirín Duffy wrote:

And here's the large quote poster:


I forgot to post the printer-ready file for this:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Printer-Ready/FUDcon-poster-f9quotes.pdf

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Máirín Duffy wrote:

And here's the large quote poster:


I forgot to post the printer-ready file for this:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/Printer-Ready/FUDcon-poster-f9quotes.pdf

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:04:17AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 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.

Cool, thanks. Just to clarify, are you talking about US Letter sized fliers
/ handouts? What I was suggesting was a large poster to greet people at the
pub itself, so we'd really only need one of them.

cheers,
- Paul

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Manager of Research Computing
Computer Science Department
Boston University

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