Michele wrote:
2008/6/2 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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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
Placing the graphics in other files eliminates the problems with meshing
them with the text. We could either have the figures in another file
along with their captions and simply link them as cross-refs, bookmarks,
or hyperlinks. Of course, we could do this with the conventional
portrait orientation also. I mentioned that earlier, but it was shot
down as being too complicated. Alternatively, these graphics could be
located at the end of the chapters (possibly hidden? there) and likewise
linked (visibly, of course). The latter way keeps them embedded in their
files with the textual matter.
Gary
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