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On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:11 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:Actually, the vast majority of Canonical staff use all open source tools
> I can't remember how I got here, but I came across this page today:
> http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/canonical-brand-guides/
>
> I downloaded the PDF document that is linked and discovered that the
> PDF document's original title was:
> canonical_interim_guides.indd
>
> I figured I knew what a ".indd" file was, but just to be sure I checked:
> http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/indd
>
> Now, I appreciate that Adobe InDesign is considered to be the "industry
> standard" by many, but I would have thought they'd make the effort to
> use Free Software considering who they are and what their biggest
> product is.
and there's a strong culture of dog-fooding. There are a few people
dotted about who, for one reason or another, use non-free alternatives
but they're definitely the exception. "They" in this case, is probably
a designer who comes from a commercial background and (when this
document was written in the middle of last year) still used the tools
they were most comfortable/productive with in order to get the job done.
Stu
It might also have been outsourced to a design company.
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