Posted on 09/22/2004 8:20:21 AM PDT by grassboots.org
Lord Willing, Time and Funds Permitting, we will be adding new flyers almost every day for you to download, print and distribute to others.
What we want are your ideas for flyers and topics. These will be given to folks who don't watch Fox News or listen to Sean Hannity and handed out door-to-door, at football games, etc.
I need a flyer for public school parents who believe being told by the National PTA that the White House is trying to cut funding, blah, blah.
> ... new flyers almost every day for you to download ...
Speaking of which, are there any sites that have
downloadable bumper sticker art?
I'd like to print up some pro-Bush or anti-Kerry on
adhesive full-sheet label stock already on hand.
We could perhaps do this - what size do they have to be saved and is there a particular format that is best (if anybody knows) We would love to be in the free bumper sticker business!
i need a kerry support sign that keeps turning in the wind...
"no u.s. blood for oil" then "let our international allies in on our spoils"
teeman
>> Speaking of which, are there any sites that have
>> downloadable bumper sticker art?
> ... what size do they have to be saved and is there
> a particular format that is best
The common full-sheet label stock is 8.5x11, but on many
color inkjet printers, the useable region is only 8x10.
Plus, people probably want to avoid wasting half the
sheet.
So I'd lean toward 4x10 in size. Composite two of the
same sticker images in one 8x10 image. People who want
to print a sheet with two different sticker images can
recomposite them using their own image editor.
The file format depends on the content. For any raster
images, 150 dpi is probably more than adequate. If the
file ends up too large at 150, 75 will do, consider the
normal viewing distance.
If the art is originally vector (.EPS, .AI, .SVG), then
Acrobat (.PDF) is the most efficient. But also make the
image available in .GIF or .JPG.
If the art is originally raster, and contains simple
flat-field colors, use .GIF. If it contains contone
imagery (e.g. photos), use .JPG.
As to your oil for food idea I will consider it.
I'd like to see a flyer that is double-sided and folded in half.
On the front (half of the page facing the reader), on top is the pic of Bush in his flight suit in his TANG days. Underneath is a pic of Kerry in his fatigues and long-hair, such as the headshot used in the swiftie ads. In between or maybe overlapping pic edges, in bold letters, the word THEN.
Open the flyer to a thirds-of page pic, flush right, of Bush in flight suit aboard the Lincoln. On left, same type and size caption next to pic and the word: NOW.
Lower on left-hand sign in smaller print: BUSH / for Commander-in-Chief
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These pics tell a thousand stories, all of which are good for Bush. There was a thread here on fr about how favorably people (esp. women!) react to that Guard pic of Bush. These pics are powerful and need to be used.
P.S. no need to shy away from the aircraft carrier landing in this context (handing out flyers). The reaction to the pic outweighs any political argument about whether Bush should have done that. I've even heard people say "I didn't know Bush flew fighters" and they are impressed.
Your spinning sign could be in the shape of a hand with a finger in the air w/pic of sKerry on it. This was in a club for growth ad and was very effective. sure they won't mind you using it!
Here is our first attempt - see how this works for you:
http://www.grassboots.org/spitballs.pdf
> Here is our first attempt - see how this works for you:
Yep, that'll do.
If you want to tinker further:
- rotate 90 degrees and re-save, so that the end user
doesn't need to remember to select "landscape" when printing
- the text in the PDF is actually a JPEG image, I see.
The file would be much smaller if the fonts had not
been rasterized prior to saving-to/printing-to PDF.
However, the file is small enough that I wouldn't
bother unless it's obvious how to re-optimize.
A flyer for public school teachers and administrators detailing how the NEA bullies them, and how that organization does not protect either their interests or the interests of education in the U.S.
You can use the "New Soldier" cover to help the kids realize why all of our new soldiers under a Kerry regime would look a lot different than our current soldiers.
You can point out that Kerry has promised 40,000 additional troops above current numbers and that the young men who traditionally enlist will not because they won't accept a Kerry as their commander-in-chief and the current troops will not reenlist to serve under a traitor who sees them and especially their fathers and grand fathers as war criminals.
You can point out that the Democrats realize that they would need a draft if Kerry was in charge which is why liberal politicians have already been laying the groundwork for it.
You can point out that college kids won't be exempted next time and there are thousands of quotes from the mouths of liberal politicians in the last 30 years that will get that fact across to them.
> This was created with an older Adobe Photo Deluxe program.
Ah. In that case, the fonts are raster regardless, so
you probably can't create a fully vectorized PDF.
> Are you saying that I should have saved it as TIFF ...
Worth a try. Since the image is mostly large regions of
one of two colors, repeat-count (TIFF's optional LZW/ZIP)
compression is apt to be more effective than curve-matching
(JPEG's DCT) compression.
Cool.
I also have Microsoft Works, Picture-It, Paint, and Microsoft Word. Would any of those work any better?
I have to admit, that some of your "lingo" is strange to me - I have not done a lot this type of work.
Should go over big at Yankee Stadium.
> ... and Microsoft Word.
If you have the full Acrobat product,
- printing directly from Word to .PDF,
- save-as-PDF
- (or to print to file as .PS, then Distilling to PDF),
will probably result in the smallest possible file, given
that the sticker in question is just text on a colored
background.
Doing the compositing might be tricky, unless you have
some experience with doing text at odd angles in Word.
But the current file is already small enough. Rather than
fine tune it, I'd suggest focusing on getting more sticker
art created.
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