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 -- 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
