Peter:
Here are a few things I've spotted that I missed earlier:

(1) Figure 3 in Chapter 1 of the Impress Guide shows a
squiggly red line under Quickstarter, caused by having "spell
check as you type" activated. (This may not have been done by
you, but all of us failed to catch it.)

(2) Please make lines that point to things (and circles around
things) heavy enough that they will be clearly visible when
printed as well as when displayed on screen, especially if the
lines, circles etc are a colour other than black. Example: in
Figure 1 in Chapter 2 of the Impress Guide, the red lines with
arrows didn't print well in black-and-white-and-grayscale. (In
contrast, Figure 13 in Chapter 5, which has heavier red lines and
arrows, printed fine.)

(3) In Chapter 4, Figure 2 looks quite stretched out vertically
to me. Normally I would resize this myself, but you can probably
do a better job of it than I would.

(4) Figure 5 in Chapter 4 is MUCH larger than necesary. Probably
if you use a smaller arrow, then the rotating handles will be
larger in proportion, and the picture can be overall much smaller
yet still show what's needed.

Not only is it aesthetically unpleasing (to me), but having such
a large image messes up a lot of the following page breaks.

(5) Chapter 5, Figure 10: On screen it looks much better than the
previous version, but it doesn't print well in grayscale (nor did
the earlier version); the white face of the object does not
sufficiently differentiate from the pale blue background, and the
pale sides tend to drop out a bit too.

(6) Figure 18 in Chapter 5 is a definite improvement, including
getting rid of the squiggly red line -- thank you!

(7) Chapter 6, Figure 3: same problem as for Figure 5 in Chapter
4: the illustration is much too large to demonstrate the point.

Also on that figure: I agree with Michele that the "centre of
rotation" symbol should be moved away from the centre, as he had
it in the earlier version. That is because the text talks about
how you can move it from its default central position, if you
want to rotate around something other than the centre. (In
contrast to the similar image in Chapter 4, where the text does
not mention this and so having the rotation symbol in the centre
is fine.)

(8) I didn't spot any remaining problems in Chapter 3, but I did
crop a couple of pictures and shift the location of some text, to
make the page breaks work better. I've now changed the
publication date and replaced the ODT and PDF copies in the
Published folder.

Good work, Peter! Despite my few complaints, I know you do a
better job than I on these images, and I really appreciate your work.

-- Jean


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