Robert Dodier wrote:
> I'm usually against bitmap screenshots
> (as much for their size as for the kind of stuff which is
> typically shown) although sometimes there is no other way.
The figures to be included in the PDF manual will all be in
vector form. It's a pity that many browsers still do not
accept SVG, so we have to use bitmaps too. Even worse, to
make the figures appear Xmaxima's browser, I will have to
use GIF bitmaps.
> By the way there seems to be a minor typo ...
thanks for pointing that out
Richard Fateman wrote:
> I suggest that you try printing or viewing these pictures at
> different magnifications and sizes. I do not know for
> sure, but I suspect that for some displays the linewidth may be
> too small to be effective. I don't know how to modify
> the plots to make the lines thicker, but I hope there is
> a way to do this!
you're absolutely right, some of the figures use lines too thin,
and the choice of colors and font sizes do not help either.
Fortunately, PostScript is a very nice and flexible language,
so I can easily improve that. Look at this example:
http://fisica.fe.up.pt/pub/maxima/figures.html
Now I just have to study the autoconf/automake manuals to figure
out how to tell "make install" to move the screenshots into
$(docdir)/html/screenshots/
If anybody already knows how to do that, I'd appreciate any hints :)
Cheers,
Jaime