Well, I certainly use layers in Adobe Illustrator, and explicitly at least one text layer.
However, we are talking about screen captures. Think about a software document that includes screen captures of a USA product. In this case, the text in the screen captures is never text, it's pixels from start to finish. When translating the book, you translate the text. What of the screen captures? Well, you have to set up a localised version of the software using valid data and retake all the screen captures. For my money, that's a significant effort even for one language. Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martinek, Carla Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TCP] Graphicsless documentation -----Original Message----- From: Brierley, Sean And, especially if the work is to be translated, graphics can add a fair burden to the job. Graphics do not add a fair burden to the translations if they are done correctly. That means NEVER putting text within the graphic itself if you can avoid it. Put all callouts on the graphic in the authoring program, where the translators can easily access them. Also, I'd be doing as someone else suggested... capture the graphics anyway for reference. If you are using a program like Frame, then put the graphics in using conditional text where you can hide them on the finished product. DISCLAIMER: Important Notice ************************************************* This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail.E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with IPC. IPC reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems. ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. Are you a Help Authoring Trainer or Consultant? Let clients find you at www.HAT.Matrix.com, the searchable HAT database based on Char James-Tanny's HAT Comparison Matrix. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
