Thursday, October 14, 2010

WYSINWYE Part 2

In the first part of this topic we saw how the underlying tagging up can affect what we see on the screen. In this, the second, part we can see the result of incomplete definition of graphic element reproduction attributes.

Defining Graphic Reproduction Measurements

In this part we have an incomplete data problem with the Issue 4 Bike Pack. We noticed it because the graphics appeared squashed in the editing environment as well as in our Handbook Production application.

I have included a screen shot of one of them here:


The problem here is that the mark up has included an actual dimension in one of the attributes for the graphic but not the other. The actual markup is as follows (I have removed a whole lot of the markup just leaving the
relevant part):
<figure id="fig-0001">
<title>Parts of the wheel</title>
<graphic infoEntityIdent="ICN-S1000DBIKE-AAA-DA00000-0-U8025-00504-A-04-1" reproductionWidth="510"/> </figure>
Here you can see the reproductionWidth attribute (shown in bold
above) has no matching reproductionHeight or reproductionScale attributes.
I guess the bottom line is that if your graphic is not shown
squashed your editor/viewing package is not working properly. And if it is
squashed, it is not your fault.

Have you spotted any anomalies?

What I have shared in these two parts of WYSINWYE is what I have
spotted just getting output from the supplied data.
Are there any other problems/strange behaviour that you have
encountered in your work with S1000D?

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