[Sis-ams] RE: AMS Green Book

[Ray, Timothy J. (GSFC-5830)]

Hi David,

Good job.  This looks much better.    A few of the figures within chapter 6 do not appear to have been cleaned up (6.1A, 6.1B, 6.10).   If we decide to keep the in-line drawings, I'd suggest that we at least clean up figure 6.10 (the in-line version is missing some important explanatory text).

Thanks!
Tim

From: Edell, David J. [mailto:David.Edell at jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:25 PM
To: Ray, Timothy J. (GSFC-5830); sis-ams at mailman.ccsds.org
Subject: RE: AMS Green Book

All,

I uploaded a new version of the Green Book to the CWE at http://cwe.ccsds.org/sis/docs/SIS-AMS/Draft%20Documents/Green%20Book/Green%20Book%20Draft%202009_09_17A.doc  (FYI: To view past  versions of a document, you can click "history" from the dropdown box).

I cleaned up the in-line images for Chapter 6 (RAMS).  Apparently using "paste special" and selecting JPG or PNG provides a cleaner method of pasting powerpoint or visio documents, particularly within Office 2007.  In this version, the images are still scaled, but the arrows and text are not modified from the original.  As a supplement, I've also added an Appendix at the end containing full-size versions of figures from chapters 5+6 - both chapters use figures that can benefit from a full-page view.   If we decide to use this Appendix, I will clean it up further to ensure the numbering and image sizes are more consistent between each of the figures.

I'll leave it to the group to decide whether to delete the in-line images, omit the Appendix, or include both with a note at the beginning of each chapter referencing the availability of alternative full-sized images in the Appendix for the reader's convenience.

- David

From: sis-ams-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org [mailto:sis-ams-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] On Behalf Of Ray, Timothy J. (GSFC-5830)
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:23 PM
To: sis-ams at mailman.ccsds.org
Subject: [Sis-ams] AMS Green Book

Dear Working Group,

I attempted to clean up the figures in chapter 6 of the AMS Green Book (chapter 6 covers Remote AMS), but ran into problems.   The original figures were moved in-line with the text (which is good) but were reduced in size, and locations of some of the arrows in the figures were changed.  In my opinion, the figures are no longer intuitive (which was the main purpose of using figures).  Anyway, after unsuccessfully trying to clean up the figures, I gave up and talked with Scott Burleigh.  We decided to push for restoring the full-sized figures and putting them in a section dedicated to figures (perhaps an appendix or the beginning of chapter 6 or the end of chapter 6).

(The unsuccessful attempts to clean up the figures are on my local hard drive; the version of the AMS Green Book that is on the CWE retains the non-intuitive figures; the change that Scott and I are suggesting has not yet been made)

Best regards,
Tim
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