Lulu

[Paul O'Malley]

Matthew East wrote:

>Hi all,
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>So I'm happy that Jane is ok with the Lulu idea. We need to sort a few
>things out.
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>1. Style of book - there are lots of different types of paperback and
>hardback and various sizes on offer [1]. I think that hardback is not
>realistic in terms of pricing. So it's a choice between the various
>paperbacks, which all cost the same. What are people's views about which
>we should pick?
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> [1] http://www.lulu.com/about/whatislulu.php
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easy to use

>2. Size - Obviously, we need to decide which is the right size, and
>adjust the fonts in the documents accordingly.
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Its just a thought the size should be Crown Quarto
Reason, most other tech books around the same size
Perfect Bound
Again looks like the typical book.

>3. Cover art - we should probably approach the art team about cover art.
>Maybe they can help us out by 
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I have an idea for a basic cover design.
Top one third of the book cover a bright orange.
The title and attribution in black fonts.

The bottom two thirds screen shots of:

Four desktops:
Resolution: 1280x1024 would be good.

Top left a spread sheet opened to full screen.

Top right standard the default firefox.

Bottom left brown desktop with menu open on Internet.
This is over Firefox open. and covering the screen.

Bottom left the brown desktop on its own.

Bottom right a media player hooked up to some live OSS stream.
An OGG not any other format.
The media player is on the top left of the screen.
The bottom right is gimp of a picture of  a laptop.


>4. Colour - do we want to include colour in the pdfs? It costs a certain
>amount extra per colour page, so we might want to think about limiting
>it to black and white, except for the cover page. If so, we might need
>to have a look at some alternative admonition icons (possibly the art
>team could help us with those too)
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Do two or four  pages of "landscape" identification for users.
 From the menus to pointing at the trash can and battery icon.
The help button on the screen.

>5. PDFs - some refining still needs to be done on the pdfs, like
>including subsection numbers and playing around a bit with the fonts.
>Any suggestions about formatting of the pdfs, please let me know.
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Could the automatic labelling that is used in some of the web site be 
used to create it?

>Can anyone think of anything else we need to think about? ;)
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In the future should the docs evolve around having one set per release.
Bin them once the release is retired.

>Matt
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Regards,

Paul