Le 2014-06-19 02:27, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Le 19/06/2014 07:43, Nekar Xenos a écrit :
>
>> Alternatively afaik SVG supports feathered dropshadows and rounded boxes. I
>> think SVG could be the future of design because it seems to support just about
>> everything needed for print and web.
>
>
> svg has even draft about multipage... which, with the ability to use CSS
> at top of svg file, might or might not be a good thing.
>
> In formating of the page, there is already the World vs North-America
> (A4 vs US letter). Either you designed your template to only use the
> common area, dropping the margin (width 210 vs 216 mm, height 297 vs 279
> mm, so 6 mm & 18 mm of white..), or you didn't and the change of paper
> becomes "interesting" (truncated text, or repaginated with references
> becoming wrong...)
>
> A document is more than a collection of pages.
>
> And remember: your documents will be migrated to the new company logo
> and charts when the bigger corporation buy your company... or resell
> it... or change its visual identity, or want to explore a new market.
>
> Better keep a strict separation between formatting and content. (your
> diagrams & pictures might show the company logo, but it should not be
> copied inside every of them, it should be part of the formatting data
> that can be referenced by them). The company name as well as the product
> name are also not part of the content.
>
>
This.

I happen to work with commercial software packages that were bought, 
renamed, and merged multiple times... It makes life interesting when 
looking for upgrade logs.  I imagine documentation writers must be 
having a field day.

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