Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:19:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD poster idea. Message-ID: <XFMail.000727161931.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <200007240911.LAA82122@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On 24-Jul-00 Oliver Fromme wrote: > In list.freebsd-advocacy Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Oliver, that poster looks great. I wonder if it could be done in > > colour (the colours of the daemon)? > > OK, now there are three versions: > > http://www.fromme.com/ports.ps.gz (35 Kbyte) > http://www.fromme.com/portscolor.ps.gz (230 Kbyte) > http://www.fromme.com/portscolorbox.ps.gz (450 Kbyte) > > The first one is the black&white version that you already > know. The second one is the same, but the characters are > colored. Finally, in the third one I've used colored > boxes and overlaid them with white characters. > Yeah, you can do funny things in TeX. :) > > By the way, when using gv to preview the colored versions, > you have to TURN OFF gv's antialiasing! Otherwise it will > display garbage. > > Regards > Oliver Use poster from ports to slice it up into smaller parts which later can be put together using scissors and tape. It grows a bit though: My 2 columns by 3 rows A4 (to make it A1) was some 17Megs. But quite nice when run through our colour laser! I really think this kind of marketing stuff is needed. Perhaps versions augmented with an URL? There is also the penguin made entirely out of /usr/src - but using ports may be a more novel and attractive approach? /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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