Subject: Re: GIFs
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 09:52:00 CDT
At 09:49 AM 5/10/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>Screenshots that are displayed full-size should be saved as PNG.
>Screenshots in the help file are 3/4 size and should be run through this
>code to shrink them to that size:
>
>pngtopnm shot.png | pnmscale 0.75 | cjpeg -sample 1x1,1x1,1x1 -optimize \
>-quality 88 >shot.jpg
OUCH!
First, converting from PNG to PNM is a lossly conversion. Second,
screen shots do NOT display well as JPEG since the JPEG algorithm tends to
blur text.
Screen shots should be PNG!
(and you can do all of the above with a single command to
imagemagick ;).
LDR
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