[evergreen-outreach] annual report printing

[Rogan Hamby]

Another quick follow up.  In looking at moving the work on the annual
report to Scribus Kathy and I both did some research on migrating the file
format.  My experience has been that the print layout world of software is
fundamentally different in terms of exchanging data between applications
then graphics and this is bearing out to be true.  Both of us found the
same set of suggestions and neither are working for me in a way that would
be useful.  The postscript export is per page not document and does not
export embedded data.  The xml output is not parseable.  I'm still waiting
to see if Kathy had any better luck but at this point that does not look
like a viable option to me.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> There has been a little discussion off list about printing of the annual
> report.  Last year we printed 250 saddle stitched trimmed to bleed with a
> cover at 8.25x 5.75 with 100# gloss at full color.  Terri, at Equinox, was
> kind enough to get me an updated quote for this year from the same printer
> we used last year and an estimate for increasing the book size.  The reason
> for the increase in the book size is that there have been questions about
> increasing the font size of the report without decreasing the amount of
> content.  The only way to do that is to increase the paper size.
>
> A new printing at last year's specifications is $985.55
>
> Increasing the paper size to 8.5 x 6 (which is a very small increase)
> jumps to $1,228.60.  The cost has to be considered of course but it's not
> my greatest concern.
>
> While I'm very sympathetic to the access issues it's necessary to point
> out that we have attempted to keep labor time under some constraints by
> reusing the same basic layout.  Print layout software isn't quite like
> responsive web design and you can't just tell it a new paper size and have
> everything re-adjust.  If we do go the route of a new paper size we need to
> finalize this very soon and it will be a great deal of labor to implement.
>
> Just to make it clear I am _not_ in favor of doing this.  We produce a web
> friendly PDF so that it can easily be scaled and a limited print run for
> the conference.  We can certainly increase font sizes an average 25% but I
> don't think it will make for an attractive product.  However, I would much
> rather do that than change the printed format of the report.
>
>
>
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