On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:57 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:30 +0100, Clayton wrote: > > > So what can we do to ensure some measure of consistency in look/feel in > > the screenshots? Is there a common theme used? Looking at it from the > > Linux side, Gnome does not look anything like KDE, and if one person is > > using some funky Compiz theme (and there are some pretty wild ones out > > there) and the other is using the default Ubuntu/Gnome.. yet another is > > using high contrast in openSUSE... you end up with a real mishmash of > > screenshots, resolutions, quality and so on. > > > > This is something I've noticed in a few of the UG chapters - quality of > > the screencaps for example. Some are very crisp and clean, others are > > badly pixelated because the person edited the photo and reduced the > > size/DPS. > > > > There might be some value in setting out some explicit guidelines for > > taking screenshots. > > > > Something like: > > If you use Linux then... (Gnome/DKE/LXDE etc, desktop colors, themes > > used etc) > > If you use WindowsXP/7, then... (desktop colors, themes used etc) > > If you use OSX, then... (desktop colors, themes used etc) > > so that at least from each OS there is some measure of quality in what > > screenshots are provided. > > Michele Zarri and I developed some guidelines, although they don't cover > as comprehensive a list of o/s. I'll look for them and make a more > explicit link; then we can work on expanding them to include more of the > quality issues as well as o/s themes/colours. > > --Jean
Here are two places where the info I was thinking of is located: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Producing_User_Guides#How_to_create_images_for_OOo_user_guides http://www.odfauthors.org/openoffice.org/english/userguide3/res3/howto_figures Here is a zip file containing a theme and window decorations for Ubuntu to make it look more WinXP-like: http://www.odfauthors.org/openoffice.org/english/userguide3/res3/ubuntu-xp-silver-theme.zip/view (IIRC, I could not upload ZIP files to the wiki.) --Jean -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
