On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Just for reference. Some package (such as vtk-doc) became very large
> due to a minor change in doxygen/dot. Now PNG files are generated
> using cairo which by default is doing antialiasing. Using :
>
> dot -Tpng:gd output.png input.dot
>
> force the use of libgd to create the png file. The file size was
> reduced by a factor of 10 on the small experiments I played with.
>
> There is currently no easy way to update doxygen script to use this
> trick (*). DD & DM have to resort hacking the DOT_PATH and have a fake
> DOT script calling dot with the proper parameter.
Perhaps it is better to generate SVG files? This will preserve the anti-aliased
look, scale much better, and is probably even smaller than non-anti-aliased
PNG.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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