[Qgis-community-team] compiling manual & image quality

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

 Le lun 24/08/09 09:49, "Stephan Holl" stephan.holl at intevation.de a écrit:
> Hello Yves,
> 
> "Yves Jacolin (free)" , [20090822 - 20:17:48]
> 
> > Le samedi 22 août 2009, Werner Macho a écrit :
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Some of my short thoughts!
> > >
> > > 1) do we need to use latex and dvipdf and all the other tools
> when
> > > pdflatex does the same in one run?
> > > 2) really? I remember writing my diplomathesis with pdflatex AND
> > > href ..
> > Well, I am afraid it is. My last test was incorrect as I run make
> and
> > not pdflatex :(
> 
> Well, I definetly know that they are not incompatible. I run several
> projects with pdflatex and hyperred enabled.
> 
> I had some problems with the filepaths in pdflatex; it seems that
> graphicpath{} seems to be ignored though.
> 
> > > 3) I didn't set a boundig box - rather bringing the picture to
> the
> > > right size and colour with gimp .. advantage is that you have to
> > > look at every picture and see if it's really good enough.
> 
> Wo do not need any bounding boxes because we can set the width of a
> graphic with 
> includegraphic[width=10cm]{images/nnn.png}

some images are broader, editing the source files to get the correct ratio is the easiest path.
 
> > What do you think about the file format: is it better to use png
> file
> > format or eps file format ?
> 
> I would vote for using png-files.

for quality reasons, png here too
 
> Is it worth to make this change right before a release though?

As Yves said, these changes can be me made on the french branch as we're working on releasing the 1.0 manual and so are not concerned by the 1.2 release date.