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Another problem with this article is the way full screenshots are depicted.
At the end of the PDF ( http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/workshops/visualization/gellevij.pdf), the steps have
long lines stretching to the element in the screenshot that the user is
supposed to click. For example, if I wrote "Click the Print button," I'd
have a line extending from the word Print to the actual Print button in a
full screenshot.
Although I like the lines, I doubt that kind of setup could be single
sourced well. I can only imagine creating that document in MS Word or some
other print layout tool. So even if I started using full screenshots with my
documentation, because I depict the full screenshots differently (without
lines stretching from my instructions to the screenshot elements), they may
not have the same effect.
Tom
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