Re: A printed brochure: first draft ready for previewing

[Louis Bertrand <louis@signalpath.on.ca>]

Great!

1) When it stabilises, I can proof it for typos and whatnot. Just send it
to me in plain text. (I've already been proofing for DaemonNews).

2) Things that ought to be mentioned sooner: portability to other
platforms, the "make install" hook for the ports tree.

Thanks
 --Louis


Louis Bertrand, Bowmanville, ON, Canada
<louis@signalpath.on.ca>

OpenBSD: Security matters  <www.OpenBSD.org>


On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Ian F. Darwin wrote:

> 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.
>