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Re: least awful approach for keeping training slides up to date with core doc updates
Subject:Re: least awful approach for keeping training slides up to date with core doc updates From:David Farbey <dfarbey -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:56:18 +0000
(This thread is making me uncomfortable. I know people are discussing the
realities of the environments they work in, and those are work situations I
recognise from my own career, but the idea that training material is just
some edited down and reformatted version of the technical documentation
makes me shudder.)
On 19 February 2016 at 20:14, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> It's abridging / cutting the text, manually formatting text, and
> paginating that create most of the tedious work here. Images are
> relatively easy and there aren't many anyway.
>
> I never resize images, I just scale them without touching the source
> bitmap. Since my source is in Confluence I don't deal with files
> directly.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:48 AM, margaret Cekis
> <margaret -dot- cekis -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> > Robert Lauriston asked about a workflow for keeping training slides up to
> > date with core doc updates.
> > ________________________________
> > What are you using to create the source images in your docs?
> >
> > I discovered in a recent project that SnagIt has a lot of cool image
> > manipulation tools, and can perform image transformation operations on a
> > whole directory of images at once.
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