Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Hannie Dumoleyn
Op 17-05-12 06:34, Andrew Montag schreef: We may also consider using an arrow to point to things. Perhaps this is something that could be built into Quickshot; have quickshot save one image plain, and then prompt the user for any highlights that can also be saved. -Andrew Yes, this is what I

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 05/16/2012 07:21 PM, Andrew Montag wrote: I think it may be useful to highlight portions of screenshots. We could put an orange oval around text or a button, or maybe blur or grey all but one section of the screenshot to draw the readers attention to it. One could perhaps differentiate betwe

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Tony Pursell
On 17 May 2012 08:37, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On 05/16/2012 07:21 PM, Andrew Montag wrote: > >> I think it may be useful to highlight portions of screenshots. We could >> put an orange oval around text or a button, or maybe blur or grey all >> but one section of the screenshot to draw the readers

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread herat gandhi
Hello, I think you want something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8hwe2c3m1hpy3qk/ubuntu-manual.pdf On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > On 17 May 2012 08:37, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > >> On 05/16/2012 07:21 PM, Andrew Montag wrote: >> >>> I think it may be useful to hig

[Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Montag
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:44 AM, herat gandhi wrote: > Hello, > I think you want something like this: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/8hwe2c3m1hpy3qk/ubuntu-manual.pdf > > Yes, that is what I had in mind. Their's sometimes uses both boxes and arrows, which is a bit cluttered. (page 20) The numberin

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Montag
Hannie and Kevin, Here are some examples of where highlighting may be useful. http://ubuntuone.com/1mVxryxD97EPVryco0o9p4 Here I would need to point out several things: the *Files* button, the *More * button, and the, *Download file* button. http://ubuntuone.com/1fD5OExwPwLUDAp6i7ddpJ This one c

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread Patrick Dickey
I would say definitely in cases where there are a lot of different buttons/locations to look at on the screen. Or in cases where the right button/location isn't obvious. Something like in Thunderbird, if you want to point out the Send/Receive button, or a folder. Or in a situation where you could

[Ubuntu-manual] Fw: Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread mario
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: ma...@petrielabs.com Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 23:01:43 To: Reply-To: ma...@petrielabs.com Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting If a particular screenshot needs highlighting, Shutter works great, and is made to do

[Ubuntu-manual] Author status update

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Montag
In the event that the meeting in on Saturday, I cannot make it, so here is a link to my status. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ix3_GMlCbv7lB7hj4ags3A81ZOrfJTdqnZQG_EBVJBo/edit -Andrew ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot highlighting

2012-05-17 Thread John Cave
It would be good to use arrows to point out buttons in a menu. I meant an orangey-red colour, not ubuntu orange per se, but rather just an orange-red. I agree, using the pure ubuntu orange would be suicidal. John C > > From: Andrew Montag >To: ubuntu-manual@lis