Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Comments on the Prolog

2010-01-31 Thread Jamin Day
Hi Wendy, No problem at all - better to not overcommit yourself than take on too much then wish you hadn't! It's probably more important at this stage that you help out with writing the content if you are happy to stick with that. We are behind on content at the moment and need as much help in th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Audience, Context, Tone, Message

2010-01-31 Thread Benjamin Humphrey
Excellent work Thorsten, well done! On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Hi! > > Assembled from Saturday's meeting and tweaked a bit: > > > Target Audience > === > > Note: Data is better then guesswork. Guesses are better than being > aimless or working with hidde

[Ubuntu-manual] Audience, Context, Tone, Message

2010-01-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! Assembled from Saturday's meeting and tweaked a bit: Target Audience === Note: Data is better then guesswork. Guesses are better than being aimless or working with hidden assumptions (where everyone might have his own set). Short description: Pragmatic novice computer users. B

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshots

2010-01-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:30 -0800, Ilya Haykinson wrote: > However, on the bit depth, I recommend that we not go with full color > (24-bit or higher) images unless we absolutely need it: the additional > file size is probably not worth the minor improvement in quality given > the small size of the

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshots

2010-01-31 Thread Ilya Haykinson
Thorsten, I took the information from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TakingScreenshots -- who recommend 8-bit color for screenshots that are going into PDFs. Their recommendation seems to be based on a compromise between color depth and file size. I erred on the dimensions -- 800x600 is not mentioned an

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshots

2010-01-31 Thread Benjamin Humphrey
Thorsten, We took those specs off the docs team guide to taking screenshots. It's probably a bit out of date, however. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:37 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > > A screenshot will be in 16 bit by default. > > > So don

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshots

2010-01-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:37 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > A screenshot will be in 16 bit by default. > So don't dot it, stay 16 bit! ;) How embarrassing, I meant 24 bits, of course. If those "8 bits" where meant per channel, that would be the same. But it's uncommon to specify it that way. -