[OSM-talk] OSM flyer

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

   we (that's Y.T. and the folks on talk-de) have created an OSM flyer
that we can hand out to folks who ask us what we're doing. 

The flyer is DIN A7 sized (74mm wide and 105mm high) and has 8 pages
(8 pages sounds a lot but it's just one stripe of paper 105mm high and
296mm wide, zig-zag folded three times). We're trying to get the most
important things across: Look how cool we are, and it's all free, and
this is something else than free as in beer, and this is how we do it.

We have printed 5,000 copies (it's not really expensive - 200 Euros
for the lot, and some online printers would have done it for 150) and
we'll try to distribute them widely within the community so that every
mapper has a few of them with him when he's on the road.

Here's how it looks like:

front page - http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/osmflyer1.png
rear page - http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/osmflyer2.png

Takes some imagination to do the zig-zag fold in your head but I think
you'll cope ;-)

The design has been done in Inkscape, and all the raw material and a
README file is in SVN under

/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/

so if anyone wants to do something similar for their area of
interest, just re-use anything you want. I'll even translate the text
for you if there's interest. 

Bye
Frederik

PS: I like Inkscape a lot, but whenever I do stuff for printing I run
into those nasty CMYK problems. Inkscape creates RGB PDFs, printers
want CMYK PDFs. You can auto-convert them but without a calibrated
screen or printer you never know how it's going to look like in print.
I guess this can only be solved by expensive equipment - I ended up
paying 50 Euros extra for a print designer to make me a proof on his
inkjet printer...

PPS: If you read the first letter of each paragraph in sequence, they
spell out "P.o.t.l.a.t.c.h.m.u.s.t.d.i.e."

PPPS: Just kidding to get Richard's attention ;-)

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