[Qgis-community-team] user manual 2.0 good news

Otto Dassau dassau at gbd-consult.de
Thu May 8 00:47:10 PDT 2014


Hi Alexandre,

great news - I checked and added your pull request. 

Can this be done automatically, maybe with convert -resample? Does somebody
has experiences here? 

Regards
Otto

Am Thu, 8 May 2014 01:35:20 +0100
schrieb Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>:

> Hello all,
> 
> After some more testing and some help from the texi2dvi mailing list[], I
> think I finally found out the solution for our image size and resolution
> for both PDF and HTML.
> 
> The problem did not lay on the configuration file or texi2pdf settings but
> in the image files itself. All that is needed to do is to open the
> screenshots in GIMP and change their print resolution from 72 dpi (the
> origina resolution of screens), to something like 135dpi (we can decide
> which the more suitable resolution). Also, its needed to remove the width
> size settings form the rst files for those images.
> 
> The good news are that images will show at their original resolution in
> HTML (below maxwidth of the page) and at a different (more suited
> resolution) in the PDF.
> 
> Please check my Pull Request
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pull/219 and see how it builds
> both html and PDF before you accept it
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I adapted image size again and the pdf and html look ok to me. The
> > problem is not solved yet, how to automatically optimize figure size and
> > resolution for html and pdf build. But to whom should we wait to solve
> > this?
> >
> > I don't think we should stop translation any longer, now that the content
> > is up-to-date.
> >
> > Regards
> > Otto
> >
> > Am Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:48:43 +0100
> > schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>:
> >
> > > On 05-11-13 12:16, Otto Dassau wrote:
> > >
> > > > what about "releasing" the current manual as QGIS 2.0 and branch for
> > > > translation? I think we should not wait any longer. I fixed/changed
> > some
> > > > more things / figure sizes for the pdf and I think it looks ok.
> > > >
> > > > We could try to improve the figures for the next version.
> > > >
> > > > What do yo think? Richard, would it be ok for you to create
> > > > translation branch for 2.0 and prepare it for transifex, etc?
> > >
> > > Hi Otto,
> > >
> > > sure fine, but is all work on images in pdf and html now ok?
> > >
> > > I just did 'make world' on the server, so within some time this url
> > >
> > > http://docs.qgis.org/testing/
> > >
> > > should show you current status. (by the way:
> > > http://docs.qgis.org/2.0 is currently pointing to exact the same place,
> > > but will be updated after branch to point to a 2.0 build of the docs)
> > >
> > > This url:
> > >
> > > http://docs.qgis.org/testing/pdf/
> > >
> > > should contain pdf's dated on the 5th of November.
> > >
> > > Please check if these are all ok.
> > >
> > >
> > > If OK, we could branch 2.0,
> > > I'll run 'make pretranslate' on it, which will generate pot/english po
> > > files which then can be pushed to Transifex.
> > > At that moment the Transifex documentation project wil NOT be the
> > > translations of master anymore, but the translation of 2.0
> > >
> > > To be sure nobody we can remove all .po files (translations) from
> > > master branch, but that means that even current translations will NOT
> > > be
> > visible.
> > > So
> > > at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/
> > > will only be available in english...
> > >
> > > Not sure if that is what we want though..
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Richard



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