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

[Carson Farmer]

Hi Stephan et al.,
> Hello Yves,
>
> "Yves Jacolin (free)" <yjacolin at free.fr>, [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}
>
>   
>> 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.
>
> Is it worth to make this change right before a release though?
>   
I would vote no, it's not worth it at the moment. We can certainly get 
this set up and fixed for the next release, but we are almost out of 
time for the current release, and it would be nice to release the manual 
at the same time as the new software again...

Carson