A printed brochure: first draft ready for previewing

["Ian F. Darwin" <ian@darwinsys.com>]

If anyone is interested in a printed brochure for OpenBSD 2.4, please
check out http://www.darwinsys.com/openbsd and follow the link
to the Brochure. It is online in PostScript for printing, and also
in HTML so you can preview it and decide if you want to download and print it.
The type is small so that it can look reasonable on a laser printer.

I wrote it from scratch, over the last few days. Why?  Last week I
was in a hotel teaching a course, and there was a convention of
computational genomics or something like that. These people live
by computing. They are researchers, so BSD is a natural for them.
But I had nothing I could leave on tables. I wanted something better
than a web page. I wanted a real brochure.  The kind of thing that
people with money hand out at trade shows(*).  I thought about some
discussion on this very topic in advocacy a few weeks ago. And we didn't 
have one, so I made one. Please check it out.

THIS IS A BETA RELEASE. PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF 1.1 TO THE PUBLIC.
It needs some fixing yet AND it can not go out until 2.4 CDs are on sale.

I already know the following about version 1.1:
1) The HTML is crap. It's machine-generated from the program I use
to make the PostScript, and I don't care; it is just for previewing.
The goal is to make something you can just download and print verbatim,
to hand out at shows.
2) If you use GhostView, you have to select "rotation landscape".
I'd have thought that PostScript and GhostView would work this out
between them, but they didn't. Sorry.
3) At least one hyperlink in the HTML doesn't work; maybe none does yet.
I will try to fix this in the next release.
4) If you print it, the column boundaries are wrong and you can't make
a neat 3-fold brochure out of it. This, too, I will try to fix in the
next revision.

Other comments welcome. On the content side, are there any promises
made in the brochure that 2.4 doesn't keep in real life? Are there particular 
pros or cons of OpenBSD that should be added?

On the printing side, if you are the type who might
download, print and duplicate such a brochure, would a copy in PDF
help? This might work on things like Windoze boxes, where they
generally don't know how to print PostScript, for example.

Thanks.
Ian

(*) Remember the old adage that if people think you already have money,
they are more likely to give you more.