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["Evan Boldt" <alitabuger7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tord Jansson,

Thank you for your bug report. First of all, I would like to personally ask
for bug reports to be submitted to launchpad. It is much easier for me to
respond to those, as well as organize the solutions for them.

Not allowing pdf is actually a technical restriction. The images submitted
to the primary "image" field are all resized to two thumbnails, which are
used in the grid "get materials" view and the blocks at the right on the
front page. Drupal's image manipulation program (imagemagick, or gdi) cannot
do such manipulations to my knowledge with pdf.

It would be nice to be able to allow users to submit the format of their
choosing, but the thumbnails are too valuable to be removed, in my opinion.

However, I do not see why pdf shouldn't be allowed in the section currently
called "huge image"

Actually, converting that into a "file" rather than a "image" field would
elminate another bug that sends the entire huge image then resizes it in the
browser.

I'm not sure that I know how to convert the field without destroying data. I
may have to manually download and re-upload the "huge images" and rename the
field to something more accurate.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Rubén Romero y Cordero
<huayra@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tord Jansson <tord.jansson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename
> "evan"
> To: Rubén Romero y Cordero <huayra@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>  Rubén,
>
> First of all I would like to thank and congratulate you and the rest of
> your team for your work on SpreadUbuntu. I believe a site like SpreadUbuntu
> is long overdue and will be a cornerstone in the future DIY marketing of
> Ubuntu.
>
> I attempted to add my posters (currently available from
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Materials/) but unfortunately I ran
> into a problem.
>
> My posters are available as PDFs since they that way provide superior
> printing quality as well as a smaller size compared to bitmap images and the
> source code is in SLA-format (made with Scribus). I could easily upload the
> source code as a zip-file, but I can not upload the PDFs as images!  May I
> suggest that you allow PDF as a format for huge images besides the bitmap
> formats specified? I also find it weird that you allow pdf as source files
> since pdf definitely isn't any source file format suitable for edit.
>
> The way that would make most sense to me is if I could put a thumbnail
> image as "Image", the PDF as "Huge Image" and the zip as "Source File".
> After all, PDF is THE cross-platform portable format for print content,
> including posters. Huge Images is in my mind a much worse solution for
> creating print content although it should remain an option.
>
> In many cases I also provide multiple versions of the same posters (with
> and without tear-away-tabs, colorful or ink conservative versions), it would
> be nice (but not necessary) if these somehow could be grouped together under
> the same thumbnail and with the same source files. If not it would be nice
> if you could advice me how you would like me to handle them (upload them
> separately or maybe bunch them together in the source archive?)
>
> Once again, I'm very glad you have put a first version of SpreadUbuntu
> online and would gladly contribute with content.
>
> Regards,
> Tord Jansson
> Sweden
>
>
>
> Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote:
>
> Hello fellow Ubunteros!
>
> I am going to announce the first release of what in time will be come the
> SpreadUbuntu Do-It-Yourself repository for marketing material. This is not
> official yet, but calling it a usable alpha is not unfair.
>
> I am asking all of you to tell all ubuntu enthusiasts about our project and
> invite them to use it, to come to our site and thus get the repository
> bigger and more relevant for the global ubuntu community! You can visit it
> here: http://ubuntu.ec/su/drupal5/
>
> I leave you the release announcement just below my signature.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rubén Romero
> https://launchpad.net/~huayra <https://launchpad.net/%7Ehuayra>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> After over two weeks of site tunning, bug fixing and<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue114#Spread%20Ubuntu%20Alpha%200.1>
> lots<http://nancib.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/pengs-links-for-saturday-25-october/>
> of <http://www.ossblog.it/post/4501/spreadubuntu-alpha> news<http://punto-informatico.it/2457489/PI/Commenti/ubuntu-810-stambecco-intrepido.aspx>
> coverage <http://ubuntupodcast.net/2008/11/08/ubuntu-podcast-episode-11/>(which, by the way, helped test the site) let me introduce to you:
>
> *SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - "evan"*
>
> Evan <https://launchpad.net/%7Eedb82189> is by far the greatest
> contributor to our project and the first release goes to him! Cheers mate!
>
> *So what do we have here?*
>
> *The short story:* SpreadUbuntu <https://launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu>, a
> project by the Ubuntu Marketing team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-marketing>.
> This release includes multilingual support and basic features of what in
> time will become the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) part of the SpreadUbuntu Marketing
> site. Among our features we have *download, upload and share all kind of
> ubuntu marketing material so we can all go out and SPREAD ubuntu to the
> masses!* Now you have no excuse for not having that flyer in your own
> language, or the poster you saw *somewhere* on the internet!
>
> If this sounds interesting please read *the long story.* It can be found
> here <https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/0.1/0.1>.
>
> Does this sound like something you want to be part of? The easiest way to
> do it is to *use the site yourself AND to tell everyone about it!** *Besides
> that you can put your hands to work and become part of SpreadUbuntu, we have
> already plans for 0.2 <https://launchpad.net/spreadubuntu/0.2/+milestones>.
> Our team <https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu> and project<https://launchpad.net/%7Espreadubuntu>are in Launchpad, and we also have a space in the
> UbuntuWiki <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu>.
>
> *I hear you say it, but where is all this awesomeness?*
>
> Don't hesitate, you are NOT dreaming: *it's right here<http://ubuntu.ec/su/drupal5/>
> !*
>
> You may kill our bandwidth, but hey, we can always upgrade our slicehost<http://www.slicehost.com/>plan for a month or two. As for the server I believe it will be up to the
> task: It is after all running your favorite server OS<http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition> [image:
> ;)]**
>
> * Go UbuSpreaders(tm), go!*
>
>
>
>
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