<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Rogan Hamby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rogan.hamby@gmail.com" target="_blank">rogan.hamby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>A new printing at last year's specifications is $985.55</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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