On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 04:43 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-06-28 17:23, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit :

> > 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
> Sounds like you had started on a protocol. If we could complete the 
> directions along with samples it will help our "screenshot helpers" in 
> supplying our teams with the more appropriate shots. Are these somewhere 
> on the wiki? We could help you with completing these if you need any help.
> 

They are in the draft Chapter 2, Producing LibreOffice User Guides,
which can be downloaded from 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/5/5e/Producing-LO-userguides.odt

--Jean


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