It's just a thought, and I should point out I don't do such work myself (Though I work with people who do, but they use Dreamweaver and more complex mockups), but ... Wouldn't PDF do all this ? It can ingest/display raster images, have hotpots and links, ToC's with thumbnails, etc ... Easily viewed, plenty of good tools and support (Including, since you mentionned it OpenOffice), and so on ... Just an idea ! J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces+jean-francois.doyon=ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces+jean-francois.doyon=ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca@zope.org]On Behalf Of Chris McDonough Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:28 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] OT: Q about mockup-making software I am frequently required to make mockups in the course of developing a project. I am not comfortable using Dreamweaver or another WYSIWYG tool, mostly because I really don't care about the actual HTML that will eventually be generated, and I don't want to need to learn all of the other stuff that comes along with Dreamweaver to do this. I find that I also tend to get sidetracked in making things "look nice" in Dreamweaver, when in reality it just doesn't matter at the time when I'm doing it. Also, I don't even care that the resulting mockup looks much like what it will eventually look like in HTML. The mockup doesn't even need to be dynamic (it needn't show the actual dropping down of dropdown boxes, or the actual scrolling of multiselect boxes, etc). The only dynamicism required is a capability that would allow me to create a set of images that could be navigated by mouse clicks, each mouse click which would essentially just lead to another "page" which could itself be a static image with hotspots representing clickable areas. I have created mockups in the past by creating multiple GIFs, each representing a page (using things like Open Office Draw and/or Visio, saving each "page" I create to a GIF) and using an imagemap editor to create hotspots on the each GIF that lead to another imagemap. This works very well, but it is tedious because I can't seem to find any tools that allow me to do this across multiple images, retaining imagemap state across edits, and allowing me to treat a collection of images + imagemaps as a "project". Additionally, I would like the tool to be able to show me a graphical thumbnail-ish overview of all "pages", with lines drawn between the pages representing the clicktrail. Assuming anyone can decipher my poorly-phrased description of my problem above, does anyone have a preferred method or tool they use to do something like this? I don't care about platform (if it's a Mac tool, and it works well, I'll buy a Mac ;-) If nothing exists, I'll create my own. - C _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )