[documentation-dev] Sample 2-column layout for onscreen PDFs: where to get it
I've done further tweaking on the draft 2-column landscape page for user guide PDFs. Font change, line spacing, different title page layout: http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/test-landscape-chapter-rev.odt http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/test-landscape-chapter-rev.pdf After I decided on landscape and optimising for onscreen reading, I found Michele's idea for a cover design works much better than it did on a portrait page... and the printing problem I identified earlier is irrelevant. The font change from Times New Roman to Bitstream Vera Serif follows comments by the German team on the Authors list in February this year that they were using all Bitstream fonts because they have the big advantage of being delivered together with OOo and it looks the same on every OS -- and Times New Roman isn't. Regina Henschel suggested DejaVu instead, saying it also ships with OOo. I haven't done much with DejaVu but from what I've seen it's a bit nicer than Bitstream. Perhaps on my next fiddle with the proposed template, I'll change everything to DejaVu. Comments on all of this are welcome. The main thing, of course, is -- are you okay with changing to a design for PDF suitable for onscreen reading? --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [documentation-dev] Sample 2-column layout for onscreen PDFs
Hi, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've done a quick-and-dirty sample of a 2-column layout for producing PDFs instended for onscreen reading. Text font size increased to 13. No indentation from column margin. Other tweaks would improve it. ... Would appreciate some feedback, especially from those of you who mainly read PDFs onscreen rather than printing them. Later today I will put the test PDF on one of my machines with a smaller screen size and see how it looks to me. --Jean it is a wonderful idea to publish PDF files for onscreen viewing in a landscape format. I like that format onscreen. It can be discussed whether one column or two columns are better. My feedback: Please get rid of the break in the page numbering for all documents that will be read onscreen. It is frustrating to see that a page has the number 15 printed in the footer while the Acrobat reader displays that you are on page 18. You never know which is the right page number that you must enter in the Go To Page Number field of the reader software. Onscreen documents should always follow plain page numbers from 1 to the end to avoid ambiguities. Onscreen there is no need to start page numbering with anything other than number 1 for the title page. Uwe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Technical Writer StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[documentation-dev] Sample 2-column layout for onscreen PDFs
I've done a quick-and-dirty sample of a 2-column layout for producing PDFs instended for onscreen reading. Text font size increased to 13. No indentation from column margin. Other tweaks would improve it. Because this started out as a portrait page, it was a bit of a nuisance to get into this format. However, I think that any document starting out in this format would convert into portrait more easily (if one had a need to do so) than the other way around -- mainly because the tables and graphics would not be too wide for the page. The result might look a bit odd, but at least nothing would fall off the edge of the page, as happened with some of the tables and graphics in the chapter I used for a test. (Some of this problem can be avoided by inserting the tables and graphics differently -- I know this because some convert and others don't -- but I'm not sufficiently familiar yet with the process to know how to avoid the problems.) The smaller column size also has the advantage of encouraging us to crop graphics to fit, while showing essential information. This, of course, takes more work than the easy way out of just shrinking the larger screenshots, which tends to make them less crisp and in some cases too small to read. Would appreciate some feedback, especially from those of you who mainly read PDFs onscreen rather than printing them. Later today I will put the test PDF on one of my machines with a smaller screen size and see how it looks to me. --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[documentation-dev] Sample 2-column layout for onscreen PDFs: where to get it
Quick test of two-column layout intended for reading user guide PDFs onscreen. Oops, I forgot to say where you can get it: http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/test-landscape-chapter.odt http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/test-landscape-chapter.pdf --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
