Usability: please label large PDF downloads

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Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by kenmcd » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:34 pm

The two manual links on the front page do not provide any warning as to file type (PDF), or the file size (2-3 MB).
This may cause some users some difficulty.

Suggest you add these to the descriptions (changes in red):

SourceForge User Guide
Download the User Guide for printing or offline viewing. (PDF : 3,177k)

SourceForge CDP
Get on the fast track to process improvement with the SourceForge Collaborative Development Process. (PDF : 2,289k)

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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by Boomzilla » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:39 am

I like the idea. I've forwarded it to our docs person.

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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by bluesaze » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:11 pm

Goood I idea I had the same problem only when it started downloading I realized it was 3 MB so i had to stop it.
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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by jstanton » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:57 pm

Hi,

This is a great idea. Thanks for suggesting it. I'll file the request and try to get it into an upcoming release.

Thanks,
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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by Boomzilla » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:49 am

FYI - Julie is our lead project manager and has docs oversight too.

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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by micheas » Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:16 pm

If there is an HTML or plain text version of these documents it would also be very helpful, as I sometimes do development work on a remote machine and like to have my documentation in easy reach on the machine I am working on.

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Re: Usability: please label large PDF downloads

Post by Boomzilla » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:17 pm

The online-help system is in HTML. (disable or override pop-up blockers before launching on-line help)

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