2008/6/2 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Jean Hollis Weber wrote: >> [cut] >> >> Comments on all of this are welcome. The main thing, of course, is -- >>> are you okay with changing to a design for PDF suitable for onscreen >>> reading? >>> >> >> The general idea looks excellent, but page 9 shows the problem with >> reducing image sizes. We need to find a way to cope with images that are >> naturally wider than the column in which they reside. This particular image >> doesn't lend itself to cropping. Maybe a 90 degree rotation could be >> acceptable, albeit somewhat clumsy? >> > > For reading onscreen, I think that 90 degree rotation would be completely > unacceptable. > > Uwe suggested a single-column layout, which could certainly deal with the > hard-to-crop image problem, but where a paragraph stretches the full width > of the page the line of text may get a bit too long for some people to read > comfortably. > > Another possibility is to play around with double and single column > sections or other methods of permitting some images to be whatever size is > needed for clarity. That starts getting a bit fiddly, though, so it should > be a last resort. Much better to crop if at all possible. > > BTW, the image you mentioned looks just fine to me in the PDF on my > monitor. I must try viewing the PDF on other monitors. I realise your > standards of acceptability are higher than mine. > > --Jean > > > Hello,
I like the two colums layout. As for the big pictures we may either float them on the page or take the screenshots again but at high resolution so that we can rescale them without losing read-ability. Since the pdf is for screen viewing we may also (if at all possible) create hyperlinks to the full size pictures and only place a thumbnails in the text (just like in the wikis). This could also address the issue on the number of pictures in the user guides discussed in another thread (people who do not care can skip opening the full size pictures. In general, if creating electronic-only versions of the user guide we should try to be a bit more creative. Cheers, Michele
