Doc review & quick ref card - anyone with some DTP skills?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Sabin Iacob wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> Others could well disagree but here's my 2c ...
>>   
> 
> it appears they don't :)
> Here's what I was able to come up with in the short breaks taken from
> messing with Django models:
> http://m0n5t3r.info/stuff/bzr-quickref.svg (uses Bitstream Vera Serif
> and Bitstream Vera Sans mono, renders ok even in Firefox here)
> http://m0n5t3r.info/stuff/bzr-quickref.png (300dpi PNG)
> 
> waiting for comments on the content/design (it looks good to me, but I'm
> not the best person to judge that :D)

This is really nice to see. To start with, I'm not a graphic artist, so take
some of what I say with a grain of salt.

a) It really is a lot less eye-catching than the Mercurial one. I wonder if we
could come up with a bit of spot-color (sort of like syntax highlighting). It
is a little cheesy but 'bling' factor can make someone say, "ooh, what is this
all about". Which probably has a good effect at conferences, etc.

b) The 'balance' of the page seems a bit off. I'm not sure how it should be
done, but it seems like either you should have all the boxes on the left, with
the free-form text on the right, or have boxes all the way around the free-form
text.

c) I would probably make the concept more obvious than its description. Either
with Bold, or maybe just a lighter font for the description, and a little bit
more spacing.


So are you just editing the SVG file directly? I'm just curious what your
source format is. Thanks for working on this.

John
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