Re: Dia quickstart

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Calum Benson wrote:

> Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> > 5) Looking at the "Saving and Printing Your Diagram" section, I would
> > suggest targeting your audience a little higher.  Consider your audience
> > somebody who has run a few GUI programs before - probably Word and Excel.
> > For this audience, they know all too well they have to save their programs
> > often in case it crashes ;)
> 
> As a vaguely-related point (and equally-picky, sorry!), I was a bit wary
> about the first sentence in this section: "Saving your diagram and
> printing your diagram is as easy as creating and modifying your
> document".  
> 
> >From usability tests I've been involved with on documentation in the
> past, users often don't like instructions that tell them how "easy" (or
> "useful" or "simple") something is-- I've heard many comments like,
> "I'll be the judge of how easy it is, not the guy who wrote the book!" 
> What's easy for one user can be hard for another, especially if (for
> example) the user has some sort of disability, and a particular task
> hasn't been made very accessible for one reason or another.

Calum - thanks for the insight.  I think this is a common writing style
that many of us will have to consciously avoid.

> You might also want to change the phrase "2-bit images" to something
> else... it has another meaning in English which might not give the best
> impression of the software  :o)

Kevin - did you mean 1-bit or 2-bit?  If it is 1-bit, then you could use
"bitmap".

Dan