On 02/10/10 04:16, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
We've had a lot of complaints from people who print our PDFs about our
two-up design (which was intended for reading on screen), so I've made
the LibreOffice template in the more common portrait design with fonts
to suit.
So, my question: should we also change the OOo template? This is a good
time to do it, while updating all the docs to V3.3. Yes, I know we're in
the middle of updating to the latest 2-up template, but only a subset of
the docs have been done, and they are all still in draft, so...
My vote is yes, to change the OOo template now, along with everything
else that's going on. I was going to recommend doing it soon anyway,
while we're setting files up for reusing material. I've been holding off
a bit because Clayton's been working on a template for the developer
docs, and we've been talking about the pros and cons of bringing the
user guides into a similar look as the developer docs. The changes I
would make now would go along with that.
Comments?
Jean
Hello Jean,
If you remember we had a similar discussion when we first updated the
template and I do not think much has changed since then: you either
create a document that is intended to be printed (suitable fonts,
margins, sparing use of colours) or you create a document for screen
reading.
At the time we decided to optimize the template for screen reading.
Though we could have taken a different approach (e.g. landscape instead
of two-up) there are some practical considerations to be made, such as
the need to make sure that the current screenshots (hundreds of them) do
not need to be re-taken.
So I guess we should start again from the same point:
do we want a template optimized for screen reading or do we prefer a
template suitable for printing?
My opinion is that since Jean produces the book version we should stick
with the screen viewing optimized but of course I am happy to go with
the majority. In fact I would go even further make it even more screen
friendly (and much less printer friendly) by:
- making the vertical size of the page very short A4 so that two full
pages will fit on a widescreen monitor;
- and add a bit more colour in the document by changing some of the
character styles,
- increase the use of hyperlinks,
Cheers,
Michele
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