[HacktionLab] Printable book

[Mara]

Hi all,

nice one on getting this together! Just found the time to take the first
look in ages. I noticed there's a mix of greyscale and colour images. Is
the plan to print it on colour? If not, it would be good to make the
colour images greyscale and optimise them, so they don't turn out badly.
Same goes for the links, currently they're blue and underlined, which
might not turn out well if it's printed without colours. Other links
have no emphasis at all. Maybe a different font for emphasis would work
better, and consistency would be really helpful.

Don't mean to be a downer and or delay printing any longer. So if
someone wants to point me towards the latest version in editable format,
I'll see if I can make these changes happen until next week. If people
think it's a good idea to do so.

Cheers,
Mara



On 30/10/2010 12:13, penguin wrote:
> Hey
> 
> The booklet is looking really good.
> 
> I really strongly recommend you don't make the text smaller. IMO, people
> are a lot more likely to use something that they can read easily -
> especially when they are not familiar with the subject (as in this case).
> 
> Printing wise, I'll be seeing the person from Green Print in the next
> few days - I'll check quotes and timescales with him and let people know.
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/10/10 11:47, Mike Harris wrote:
> 
>>> https://we.riseup.net/imc-london/tech-tools-for-activists+65864
> 
>> Thanks.  And thanks again for getting that together.
> 
>>>
>>> I think it should be put somewhere more hacktionlab created, as that was
>>> just a copy i put there as part of the literature we were preparing for
>>> the bookfair.
> 
>> Yes.  We agreed ages ago to ditch using Crabgrass.  The Wiki is a much
>> better place imho and there's lots of content there.  So I've uploaded
>> the book there:
> 
>> http://hacktivista.net/hacktionlab/index.php/File:Hacktionlab_tech_tools_for_activists_2010-10-10.pdf
> 
>>>
>>> Which never happened actually, after all that talk about how much
>>> cheaper it could be done in other places!
> 
>> Yes, I think there was an issue with the guy at Oxford Green Print,
>> although it was short notice.
> 
>> Ana, please look at the facts here:
> 
>> * We'd already got quotes for printing six months ago and documented
>> this on the list and wiki.
> 
>> * The quote you got was a factor of five times more expensive!
> 
>> * We DON'T have the funds to pay for the printing of the book at the
>> cost detailed in the quote you received.
> 
>> I'm chasing OGP and also just contacted Bristol Radical History about
>> printing it, as they seem up for it.
> 
>> If you can get a similar quote for printing in your neck of the woods,
>> then I say go for it, but at the prices you were quoted, we just can't
>> afford it; unless of course you're up for self-funding your end and
>> recouperating the costs yourself.
> 
>>>
>>> Anyway all versions so far are there. Some also say it can be done
>>> smaller therefore cheaper just by making the typeface smaller
> 
>> It is about the number of pages we agreed.  It could be printed A5, but
>> as small as A6 I guess.
> 
>>>
>>> ana
>>>
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