Re: screenshots in documentation
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:16, George Papamichelakis wrote:
> > > Maybe if we put some screen captures from a standard installation
> > > (through bochs ?) for the reference of very new users ?
> >
> > That is a good idea.
> >
> > There is at least one picture that should go into the manual:
> > resize of an existing partition
| >
| > Could bochs be automated for making the screen captures?
| > (we have many languages to document)
| >
| > Can screen captures made with debconf
| > without running the actual d-i code?
| > I mean that when the Templates from debian-installer source are used?
| >
>
> Why make them pictures? Except when using the GTK frontend, they're all
> plain text. It should thus be possible to rebuild them inside the manual
> (assuming DocBook has something similar to HTML's <pre> tag), and this
> will not waste space (one picture isn't much, but if you want, say, 15
> pictures per architecture per language, then it will end up to be quite
> a bit in the end...)
Oops, I should have avoided 'picture' and sticked to 'capture'.
Yes, I agree that we should avoid bitmapped graphics.
Does that mean that bochs is no longer a candidate for
autobuilding the sceen captures?
Yep, DocBook has "preformatted" options like HTML's <pre> tag.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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