[ubuntu-art] Some help needed from the Documentation Team

[Matthew East]

Forwarding to ubuntu-doc. Personally, I think they are nice, but I do
not know which of the two covers I prefer. Hopefully you can work
together with Brian on this!

Thanks for your work,

Matt

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:33 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote:
> Hey Matt,
> 
> Just an update. I had a go at this with some ideas I had recently about
> some splash screens for myself, and they seem to work just as well, if
> not better as a book cover.
> 
> You can find the files on:
> 
> http://klepas.org/temp/ubuntu/ubuntu-doc-cover-front.png
> http://klepas.org/temp/ubuntu/ubuntu-doc-cover-front.svgz
> 
> This is just a draft. I've munted some of the colouration and sizes so
> if you guys like this I'd be happy to polish it. Finally I also had some
> other ideas of perhaps dropping in some faint technical blueprints or
> something of the sort into the background. Would make it more
> interesting personally as right now just having a logo, some text and a
> plain background can get somewhat boring...
> 
> Let me know what you guys feel.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pascal
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:25 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > Hello Art-team!
> > 
> > The documentation team, as you may know, produces guides for Ubuntu[1].
> > We currently have a Desktop Guide for Ubuntu and Kubuntu, a Server Guide
> > (for *buntu) and a Packaging Guide (again, for *buntu).
> > 
> > [1] http://doc.ubuntu.com
> > 
> > We're looking at making some printed copies of these guides available
> > via Lulu[2]
> > 
> > [2] http://www.lulu.com
> > 
> > So we need the help of the art team in two tasks.
> > 
> > First of all, the book cover: we need to provide a book cover, and that
> > means designing one. One of our members has done some designs. Can you
> > look at them and see what you think? He can make the svg's available, if
> > you want to hack around.
> > 
> > http://www.warbard.ca/temp/Ubuntu_Lulu_cover_draft.png
> > http://www.warbard.ca/temp/Ubuntu_Lulu_cover_draft_orange2.png
> > http://www.warbard.ca/temp/Ubuntu_Lulu_cover_draft_brown.png
> > http://www.warbard.ca/temp/Kubuntu_Lulu_cover_draft.png
> > 
> > Secondly, we need some greyscale admonition icons (for warnings, notes
> > etc) in the guides. Currently, the documents we use have some rather
> > large and poorly done icons, would anyone be able to make 5 greyscale
> > icons that we could use in the documents? Have a look at what we
> > currently use in the pdf version of the guide[3], and in our
> > repository[4]. The new icons would ideally be a bit smaller than these,
> > I think. If you can help, I'll give more precise details.
> > 
> > [3] http://mdke.org/ubuntu/desktopguide.pdf (see page 9 of the pdf)
> > [4] https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/branches/dapper/common/admon-pdf/
> > 
> > If you'd like to make some nice colour ones too for use in the html and
> > xml versions of the documents, that would also be lovely, but it's not
> > as high priority.
> > 
> > Thanks for reading, and if you can help, that would be awesome!!
> > 
> > Matt
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