howto translate screenshots in docs

[Kévin Raymond]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Tiansworld
<tiansworld at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 04/27/2012 08:08 PM, Kévin Raymond wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Silvio<perplesso82 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> There's a way to edit the screenshots included in documentation to be
>>> translated in the specific language?
>>> For example, how can i edit figures in Resource Management Guide for
>>> Italian translation?
>>> ....If there's a way, obviously!
>>
>>
>> I this is a DocBook/Publican option, there is a RFE against transifex for
>> that.
>> Please see https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/3
>>
>> I am CCing docs, as they could have more info
>>
>>
> What about uploading localized screenshots instead of translating them?
> For example, doc writer can put the original English screenshots on the wiki
> or somewhere, translator or other contributor upload their own languages
> screenshots for the documentation.
>
> If there is no localized screenshot available for use, then we might to
> consider translation.
>

I am not fan of this solution.
Currently, publishing a doc is a hand made process:
- checkout the right guide, the right branch
- pull translations
- build the doc in the language
- publish the built doc
- commit & push.

Here you want to add a new step, "downloading and replacing
screenshots", that would be really time consuming.
(We want to automate the publish process, I don't know where we are here).

In docs they avoid a maximum to use screenshots, mainly because of
this lack of translation feature.
Implementing this through transifex would be really great.



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Kévin Raymond
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