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Re: CVS PDF-docs


Iztok Zupet wrote:

But right now, I'm experimenting with picture resolution and type and the results are:

We can get high resolution pictures included in both HTML and PDF, if we convert the original gifs to jpgs with resolution of 300dpi and at the same time adding the Scalefit+Width attributes to source sgml.
I believed it worked in Epic, but I never tried Jade (it being irrelevant for HTML). One issue to watch out for is that it mustn't affect the HTML production since that already works at the proper resolution.

But JPG is a crappy format for screenshots. I guess Jade doesn't support GIFs due to the long-standing patent issue. Do you know if Jade supports other more suitable bitmap formats? PNG would be ideal I guess. The "convert" utility supports that and quite a few others certainly.

In the case that the pictures are not converted to a higher resolution than the original (a 72 dpi screen resolution) the resulting import to pdf is also poor (72dpi).
So you're saying it's no better than the alternative after all?

Jifl
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