[evergreen-outreach] proofing copy three

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

A lot of the font stuff looks a lot better in this version.  My only other
comment is reiterating the correction to "move forward" from "move*d *forward"
in Tim's letter on p. 2.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Ruth Frasur <director at hagerstownlibrary.org
> wrote:

> My comments are as follows, and with deep recognition that you've been
> working a LOT and this makes me feel nit picky.
> 1.  There seem to be a lot of fonts.  I wouldn't say it's weirdness, but a
> lot.  Most notably, to my mind, are the two text areas on the last page.
> My eye expected them to be what seems to be the standard san serif font
> throughout, but it's not.
> 2.  The logo on the back page seems like it's a little close on the left
> hand side.
> 3.  On page 9, there are essentially 6 colors ranging from green-blue to
> fluorescent green.  That's a lot of green.  Grant, we're Evergreen.
> 4.  The headers on pages 7 & 8 are off.  The text seems too close to the
> horizontal edge.  On pg. 8, too close to the vertical edge.
> 5.  The Kentucky collage on pg. 6 is awesome.
> 6.  On the acknowledgements page, everyone else is a proofreader but I'm
> proofreading.
> 7.  On the center teal bar on the acknowledgements page, the white text is
> off vertical center.
>
> Enough nit picking for me.  I didn't notice any glaring grammatical or
> spelling errors.
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, clearly I missed my self imposed deadline of 2 pm.  There was enough
>> feedback that I couldn't get it all in plus the things I noticed.  But
>> thanks to the wonders of modern technology and mobile hotspots on phones
>> I've continued to plug away at it.
>>
>> All of this is relevant because with my laptop screen but without
>> additional monitors so it's hard to jump between all the additional windows
>> to track font changes and such but I _think_ I've gotten the fonts
>> standardized.  Another pass will be needed.  If you still see font
>> weirdness please don't hesitate to say something.  How Scribus handles
>> fonts .... well, let's just say it's not intuitive.  I have unkind
>> adjectives in mind but it is at least consistent so I can work around it
>> even if it makes absolutely no sense why it's doing it in the first place.
>> And I'm thinking the manual editing of the XML I did at the beginning may
>> be needed again.  Anyway....
>>
>> I'm still finding some small layout tweaks.  You may notice them.  I
>> haven't logged them as everyone else has been so kind to do.
>>
>> Uh..... I have a lot of thoughts but time is short and I don't remember
>> most of them.  But I think all the changes are in.  I do however want to
>> highlight something that has been driving me nuts and that Andrea
>> mentioned: kerning.
>>
>> I think some of the text flows look ... not good.  Scribus does not have
>> smart kerning like InDesign or Quark or ... other modern commercial
>> software layout tools.  For the most part Scribus has been decent but when
>> it fails it really fails.  We could just justify everything to both sides
>> like a newspaper but that would look just as bad just different.  The thing
>> about kerning is that it's time consuming to do manually and small text
>> changes can make it all mute so I'm not going to tackle it until I feel
>> sure text changes aren't incoming and even then I'm not sure I'll have time
>> to really go through it all.
>>
>> That will be tomorrow.
>>
>>  Proofing copy 3 is attached.
>>
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