February marketing pt. 3

February flier draft four million

Here’s the five billionth draft of the what I’ve taken to calling the Bad Vista flier. It’s made a lot of progress since I first posted the idea here, but I am still not ready to put this on the street. Some remaining issues:

• Still too many words, I’ve got shit just packed in there. But goddammit, I can’t cut this thing down anymore! If anyone could help out by hacking an inch or so off the bottom, I’d be most indebted.
• Sub-note: I need room at the bottom for a copyright notice on the Bad Vista image, which, of course, part of the FSF’s BadVista campaign. I’d also like enough room for the standard 1/2″ Guerrilla Tech footer, but that might be asking too much.
• Megan says the BadVista image isn’t big enough, but if it gets any taller, it pushes shit off the page. Any thoughts?
• Greg says the screenshots suck, and he’s right. I think the “help center” and “update manager” ones are all right, but the gimp one, which is supposed to anchor the whole thing, fucking blows, and it’s not at all clear what you’re looking at in the deskbar one on the left (yeah, that’s deskbar, I know it’s hard to tell).
• The “Power and Freedom” box is really hokey, but I want something like it to anchor the bottom of the page.

Please, if you’re going to make a comment (which I hope you will), try to print one out first, or at least look at a print preview of it. The flaws you might see on a computer monitor are totally different from what you’d see glancing at it in the coffee shop.

-pd-