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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/26/2011 04:33 PM, Kerusey Karyu wrote:
> Dnia 2011-09-26, pon o godzinie 17:14 +0200, fabrizio pisze:
>> Dear All,
>> I seem to understand that the use of the .odt (and pdf) format and
>> LibreOffice as main editor is the choice preferred by most of the
>> people.
>>
> LibreOffice or OpenOffice. No matter.
>
>> In attachment you can find the document  kicad_en.pdf modified and
>> updated. The following modifications where made:
>> - front cover was redesigned (any suggestions for improvement?)
>>
> This KiCad main icon is ugly. :( This form is good for documents, but
> not for the whole application. Anyway, compare it yourself with the rest
> of icons of the KiCad Suite members. Clearly does not fit. BTW: Why
> CvPCB icon has a blue base?
> The text is ok, but what the Cannonical says...
>
>> - A quite cool template (taken from the official open office
>> documentation) was used to restyle the whole doc.
>> - New icons and screenshots (all included as local links)
>> - some minor corrections
>>
> IMHO the new KiCad documentation should be a big-bang for the future
> readers. In general.
> Your layout is too "polite". Especially with these smoothing green
> headers. The Arial font or his equivalent - it already was. 
> Lack of emphasis for important key words, no monotype in file paths or
> names - the fundamental elements of IT manuals are missing.
> Sorry. But I do not like it.

this != constructive criticism.

volunteers cannot be addressed in this way.


> Kerusey Karyu