[Bf-docboard] Blender 2.40 QuickStart Guide (FINAL)

[Frédéric van der Essen]

Pierre-Luc Auclair a écrit :

> Forget these links: get the latest version on the wiki:
> http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Image:Blender_2.40_QuickStart.pdf
>
> Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote:
>
>> I have updated my version 
>> http://www.heliosmulti.com/blender/Blender_2.40_QuickStart_Orange.pdf
>> or http://heliosmulti.com/blender/Blender_2.40_QuickStart_Orange.pdf 
>> <http://heliosmulti.com/blender/Blender_2.40_QuickStart_Orange.pdf>
>> (I have some minor domain propagation problems) if it doesn't work 
>> try reloading a few seconds-minutes after.
>> -- 
>> If your viewer is compatible with PDF1.4 there should be no problem.
>
Still have ugly brown square instead of cute shadow. I think that linux 
pdf viewers doesn't support "shadows"

>>
>>
>> When I talked to you on IRC I think we both agreed that your version 
>> had several kerning errors. As I reworked it, I discovered a few 
>> incosistencies in your typography and illustrations, a few errors, 
>> edited some parts (excessive use of "You can"), and added some stuff 
>> that was missing in the layers section.
>>
>> The main change is not the design (it's mostly the same), but the 
>> overall feel is, IMO, more polished. (Don't take personal, it's 
>> really not what I want.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pierre-Luc
>
I'm very glad about the correction of typos, wording, errors, eccessive 
"You can", bad kerning, etc... This is correcting mistakes, and it's 
good. What i'm not sure, and i would like comment from other people, as 
i'm not neutral on this, is that the new designs also make two type of 
cosmetical changes :

the first are just for sake of making things more "shining", not to make 
that document easier to understand. what i had in mind when i made this 
document is something really minimalist in colors and shape so that the 
user is attracted by the content, not by two big orange bars.

Blender logo colors are made to catch the eye they are 100% saturated. 
IMO they don't fit an educative document. If you look at colors i used, 
they are only saturated on essential information. The poor user is 
already having headache figuring how that crazy blender thing is 
working. so we should make the guide look calm and empty.

The more we add to this document, the less effective it will be.
I'm not even sure if the blender logo fits in there, the blender logo is 
very pretty but it's not a reason to put it everywhere. The user is well 
aware that he is using blender and not 3Dmax ( or else he/she will have 
some problems :S ). 

In one sentence, this guide should be designed as an educative document, 
not as a marketting brochure.

the second type of cosmetic changes just are changes that i don't 
understand since they don't make it prettier, nor more understandable. 
(like the 3rd paragraph)

A More earth to earth issues are that the new version is twice as heavy 
as the previous one.

>>
>> ________________________
>> Frédéric van der Essen wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, not on viewers other than acrobat. Read my last mail to see 
>>> how it looks on linux.
>>> I think you might understand my comments better after seing how it 
>>> looks in the xpdf-viewers.
>>>
>>> I'll not comment the rest as i think it this discussion is quite 
>>> nonsense and only bad things can come
>>> from it. Better is the ennemy of good, so let's not start a very 
>>> interesting debate on our different color
>>> tastes because that's the point where we are. One design is not 
>>> significantly better than the other,
>>> we just have different tastes.
>>
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