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[herat gandhi <heratgandhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
<ajp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>
> On 17 May 2012 08:37, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 attention to it.
>>>
>>
>> One could perhaps differentiate between
>> - marking an area
>>  - by framing
>>  - by modifying everything outside the area
>>    - lower contrast
>>    - change of brightness
>>    - discoloration
>>    - blur
>> - pointing to an element
>>
>>
> Perhaps some sort of numbering to indicate a sequence of operations...
>
>
>> To highlight things like the folder/side-bar of Thunderbird, marking the
>> entire area would be appropriate.
>>
>> To highlight a specific icon in the Launcher, an arrow could work well.
>>
>> In all cases, repeating just the area of interest in a cropped image,
>> maybe scaled down if it is large, placed right next to the associated text,
>> would be an alternative.
>>
>>
>> For all styles that add sharp elements on top of the screenshot, using
>> SVG should be considered. Ideally the vector graphics would stay vector
>> graphics in the PDF.
>>
>>
>> The design of 1 or 2 highlighting methods should be based on concrete
>> needs. Do we have examples where a form of highlighting would be of
>> advantage?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Tony
>
>
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