Hi Marco, Am 09.01.2006 um 19:01 schrieb Marco Ciampa:
First of all: I'm not an expert...be gentle!
we do - as we do always - don't we :)
I've just noted that the 4 images present in images/using/ui-* are horribly scaled. A quick view at the english-pdf file showed me the reason since I tryed to create the same snapshots for the italianversion and endedup with a pdf file with the images going outside the a4margins. So the question is:
No images are scaled for the pdf production recently. What I (we) did was to set a different print *resolution* which always is "pixel per something". So no pixel at all was harmed by this action !!
- why not leaving the 1by1 pixel in the image?is it not possible to use a tag (for example) to tell the latex that that image must be scaled (for example by 1/2 or 1/3) for the printable version? In this manner the html pages _and_ the pdf pages would be betterlooking!
Setting the print resolution means to define a real size for the image in tex (pdf) without changing anything in the html output. Sure one could also double each figure in the docbook and define one to be used in html and on in tex (pdf), but this is very messy and puts some kind of stylesheet into the xml. The whole idea of docbook is to *separate* content and style, so its obviously not a good idea to do the scaling in the xml files.
- from the starting point that there are very important reasons not easily circunventeable to do in such manner, what are therule of thumb for creating an image good for both the html _and_ thepdf versions? Limits in pixel? Valid either for A4 than Letter? Or for now it is best to simply do a try-compile-view cycle?The "Hints for making good screenshots" in the "TipsForContributing"do not mention this problem and I think that, whatever you experts decide, it is worth to ad a note..
Just do the figures as you did them in the past. Screenshots go 1:1 into the html. There is a rule of thumb, that for the html the width should not exceed 600px (IIRC). Additionally set the print resolution to 144dpi and you are done. The only exception is if you have examples that are very tiny (as most of the wilber examples are) or you have some very tiny screen snippets (as some details from a dialog window for example) - for them just leave the print resolution unchanged (72dpi). When the tex (pdf) version of the manual is produced, we'll have a critical view to image sizes anyway so if there are further changes needed they can be done afterwards.
Hope that brought some light to the issue... lexA
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