[Campus-depaul-staff] Help with Flier design

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

It also looks fuzzy to me, unfortunately.  We may want to make this from
scratch.

I have added Jonathan to the mailing list.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:45 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> I exported it to pdf. Can someone print this out for us at the campus? I
> don't have a color printer. Do a test print to make sure it is legible. The
> blue text looks fuzzy to me.
>
> ​
>  Depaul_savethedate.pdf
> <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8fwY_l0aoazQU5GLTdDbFM4bGc/edit?usp=drive_web>
> ​
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Okay, I made some simple text changes.  The text editing isn't working
>> for me either, so it's not just you Sheila.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I like the Wellesley xcf files.
>>>
>>> The full version one is a bit too wordy, and I prefer the shorter one.
>>> The shorter one could be a search/replace with DePaul info. The full
>>> version side-bar has good text, and I would play with the colors and logos
>>> if I knew Gimp more. Can you explain how to edit the text? Maybe I could
>>> try again.
>>>
>>> Here is a logo for the college, and possible colors to pick from for
>>> school design elements.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/oh-depaul/oh-depaul.github.io/blob/master/imgs/bluelogo.png
>>> http://brandresources.depaul.edu/graphic_standards/design_elements.aspx
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sheila, were you trying to edit the .xcf files?  Those are the only
>>>> ones where the text is saved as separate layers.  If you let me know which
>>>> flyer you were hoping to alter, I can try to do it myself.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:48 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was trying, but I can't figure out how to edit the text in Gimp. I
>>>>> didn't want to spend so much time on that that we didn't have fliers. I bet
>>>>> someone who knows Gimp or some other tool could do it more quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I like Massimo's idea as a fallback.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are also flyers here you can customize:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/openhatch/open-source-comes-to-campus/tree/master/publicity/flyers/publicity_flyer_templates
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Massimo DiPierro <
>>>>>> massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can ask. I would just print part of the web site for now.
>>>>>>> On Sep 25, 2014 12:17 PM, "sheila miguez" <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Could Massimo or Liz see if a student in the department would help
>>>>>>>> with design of the flier? I haven't designed good fliers before, and
>>>>>>>> students in your department would be good for this.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> shekay at pobox.com
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> shekay at pobox.com
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> shekay at pobox.com
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> shekay at pobox.com
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