[Bf-docboard] Blender 2.40 QuickStart Guide (FINAL)

[Pierre-Luc Auclair]

It's an InDesign CS2 document. I can send it to you or make the changes 
myself if you don't have it (should take a minute). About BS Vera, isn't 
it free for licensing? See the Copyright section on this page: 
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ , I can't find anything probiting it's use.

I was also seeking a way to rasterize the drop shadows, it would 
probably lower the filesize a lot, and I personally prefer this to a 
solid shadow.

The brown is a good neutral complementary color to orange and blue in my 
opinion. But it's not set into concrete and will change in the future 
when we decide on the official colors.

-Pierre-Luc Auclair

Ewout Fernhout wrote:

>Pierre-Luc,
>Could you send me the original AI file? I opened up the PDF in
>Illustrator, and I noticed something weird with the blurred shadows:
>they appear to be regular rectangles with 1 fill color and an opacity
>map applied (which is a bitmap). Now comes the strange thing: all in
>the PDF is grouped twice, when I ungroup it, I see the same thing
>others noticed on different PDF readers: black squares! Illustrator
>reports that this is due to a shading error (whatever that may be).
>
>Also, I don't think the foundation has the rights to publish Bitstream
>Vera (unless Ton is willing to pay huge amounts of money, which I
>doubt), so that font should be replaced by a freeware one IMO.
>
>My proposal for the new "drop shadows" is this (the bottom one):
>http://www.extrapuur.nl/blender/quickstart-borders.jpg
>much clearer, much smaller size and much more compatible. I'm still
>not sure about the brownish colours too (for being a
>"Blender-colour").
>
>Ewout
>