Re: optimizing PNGs
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> Was there any reason for the additional CCs? I saw no Mail-Followup-To
> or request for CC, so I dropped them.
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:22:20AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Doxygen will use SVG for graph (collaboration, inheritance), SVG is
>> AFAIK one of the best possible representation for such information.
>> The remainings PNGs are formulas (latex). It would be nice if doxygen
>> would use mathml...
>
> I'd like to add some bits from the doxygen point of view. Documentation
> packages created using doxygen currently have a number of issues with
> respect to size. Some of them are to be addressed soon(TM).
>
> * Packages shipping .md5 and .map files. Even though these files are
> small, there can be very many of them adding up to the installation
> size for filesystems with large block sizes. These files are used for
> incremental recreation of the documentation, so they are completely
> useless in a binary package. A future version of the doxygen package
> will include a dh_doxygen to aid in getting rid of these files.
Just for clarity, I believe you mean .md5. .map files are very useful
(HTML usemap attribute), see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704443
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