Subject: [linux-audio-user] [OT] graphics for tutorials, was: [OT] any gimp maestros here ?
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Fri Nov 26 2004 - 15:32:31 EET
Greetings:
First of all, thank you to everyone who responded. I really only
expected a few replies, but it seems that many of you here are
multi-talented, and I thank you all for your messages and offers of
assistance. I received so many replies that I thought it might be better
to respond to the list (rather than individually), and I want to expand
the topic anyway.
After some consideration I've decided to bring the original topic to
the list. I'm preparing some documentation for a project, and I need to
make some "instructive" screenshots, what Steve D tells me are called
callouts. Brett McCoy suggested I use layers in the GIMP, which seems
pretty do-able to me, but someone else suggested that I might be better
off using something like xfig. I want to do a simple thing (well, to me
it's simple, but that's because I don't know how to do it), I want to
place a screenshot against a larger white background, which would server
as an area for descriptive text. Arrows would point from the text to the
item described, and ideally those arrows would be placed at any needed
angle. Considering how often I see this type of picture I'd assumed it
would be simple in the GIMP: would I in fact be better accomodated by
some other graphics app ?
The topic has got a bit bigger in my mind now, so I thought I'd ask
this question on the open list: Do users have a preference for
documentation format ? I admit that while I like HTML it does look
rather clunky next to a polished PDF file. Trouble is, I don't know how
to format for PDF. So, what format would you prefer ?
I've noted this thread as OT, hopefully no-one will be bored to tears
by it... :)
Best regards,
dp
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