Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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.)
It was deliberate to show "real life", but I've removed it for you.
(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.
Now increased in density and works well in grey scale at 50% sizing.
(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.
I think you meant horizontally. This is caused by the space for a preview of the
image in the dialogue box. There is no non-optical way to reduce the size of a
screenshot without loss of image quality, so what I have done is chopped the
preview area from the picture and added a little text to explain this functionality.
To reiterate the problem: screenshots are defined by the pixels per inch of the
screen from which they are taken. This tends to a default of 72dpi on standard
monitor types. I capture images at the best quality possible and supply them as
such. If you have to reduce them later, and can accept the loss of quality
inherent in that decision, that's your privilege, but I assume that you would
like the best starting point.
(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.
Done! Is it satisfactory now?
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.
It works well with a black background, both in colour and grey scale, but I'm
not clear what you would prefer to change, the background or the object colours?
Until you confirm I won't update that chapter.
(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.
Same solution.
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.)
I've moved it in both.
(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.
Thank you, Jean. Any more comments? Chapters 1, 2, 4 & 6 screenshots and
chapters are now in Feedback.
Peter HB
