On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:37:36 -0500, "Tammy Fox" <tfox(a)redhat.com> said:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +0000, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> 1) The Documentation Guide specifies a width but not a height. What
> would be the best height to use ?
>
When you resize it, contrain proportions. The width maximum is for
online viewing. Height doesn't matter as much. When we generate PDFs,
the height will matter more because of page breaks, but the anaconda
screenshots should be fine.
The dimensions for the EPS images is the bit I don't understand very
clearly. When I run 'make pdf' I get an A4 layout, but presumably the
EPS has to be sized so that it looks OK on US Letter as well.
> 2) There are a lot of images, which means that organising them
is a
> problem in itself. Is there a naming convention that I should use for
> the files ?
>
The filenames you've used look fine -- descriptive of the screen
itself. One suggestion I would make is to remove the numbers.
OK, I'll amend these.
> FWIW, these were captured using VMWare. I found that many of
the
> required images couldn't be captured with anaconda's --auto-screenshot
> because they were either text mode, or were dialog boxes.
There is a way to capture screenshots for the "text" screens, although
I've never quite figured it out. Someone on the anaconda team might be
able to enlighten us if they are watching this list.
Looking back through the discussions on screenshots, I found this
message from Karsten advising that the functionality was broken:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2004-August/msg00347.html
I admit that I didn't experiment much, as I knew that I could get VMWare
to produce something workable. Hopefully we can hash out a process for
FC4. On my to-do list is trialing QEmu as a VMWare replacement, and
that would get around the dependency on non-Free software, even though
it's not very a elegant solution.
--
Stuart Ellis
s.ellis(a)fastmail.co.uk