Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Business Information. Message-ID: <2fd864e05021003556a6a1c1b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <755183233.20050210123555@wanadoo.fr> References: <2fd864e05021002332e78445c@mail.gmail.com> <755183233.20050210123555@wanadoo.fr>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:35:55 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Astrodog writes: > > > Assuming its not being done already, I'd like to start putting > > together the "business" information regarding FreeBSD for either the > > FreeBSD.com, or somesuch website with the assistance, and (I hope) > > blessing, as it were, with people on the list. I determined that if > > I'm unwilling to do this myself, it is unreasonable to expect others > > to do the footwork. Please let me know if someone else already does > > this, and if not, who would be interested in contributing to such a > > project. > > I can contribute DTP work. I have a full suite of professional > electronic publishing tools and can prepare things like books, > brochures, leaflets, etc., that might be useful for promotional use. Not > being a marketroid, I'm not necessarily qualified to write the content > (although I can certainly help with that if needed), but I can massage > it all into page layouts that can be converted to PDFs and > professionally printed. (I can't cover the physical printing myself, > though, as actually printing the documents costs more than I can > afford). > > If you're going to pitch FreeBSD to corporations and other serious > organizations, you need some sort of promotional literature. Preparing > PDFs for printing or display is delicate work; and Microsoft Word or > StarOffice are not the tools for doing it, sorry. > > -- > Anthony > > I'm definitly(sp) with you on the tools for creating PDFs and printed materials. Making a StarOffice/Word document look right for publication is a pain. Thanks for the rapid response, interest, and volunteering. --- Harrison Grundy
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