On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:37 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Of the samples that were printed, the ones that I found most legible, > were the group 1 colours. From the printout on my computer they had the > clearest contrast. Jean mentions that to her the following would be the > best compromise (if we were to agree to this) (Note that the lines > ending with a "?" just need to be confirmed. > > * Clearlooks theme > * Green 2 > * Libreration font sans, 11 pt. ? > > What we did not discuss is the size of the screen capture and quality. > Could anyone comment on this? Could anyone comment on this? The website > and marketing team were following this protocol: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website#Contribution_and_Support
Most of the screenshots for the user guides are of dialog boxes, and those should be captured at their full size (unlike showing the full window, which is user-variable). Many (most) dialog boxes fit well on the document page just as they are (although their size does vary with contributor's screen resolution), but some are too wide and must be shrunk to page width or cropped. When putting screenshots into user guides, several other consistency and usability issues arise. I have a few guidelines summarised in some document, but they are not as complete as they should be. They include suggestions for cropping for emphasis (best done by the person working on a particular document, who will know what the emphasis needs to be), and guidelines for inserting cropped images at a size that results in a common text size in all the dialog boxes in a document (realising that in a few cases it must be smaller); the weight and color of any lines pointing to items in the dialog box (or circles or boxes around items); the font, weight, and size of any numbers or other text used as labels on a screenshot or in a diagram; what if any background color to put around labels. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
