Re: Screenshots

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 09:44:45PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:10 PM John Darrington
     <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
     >
     > I've pushed a change which adds some screenshots to the user manual,
     > along with a framework to autogenerate them.  The sad reality is
     > however, that while it works automatically, I think it is not ever
     > going to work in a portable fashion.  So I've checked in the generated
     > images.
     >
     > To regenerate them on a debian system the procedure is:
     >
     > apt-get install xdotool xvfb imagemagick x11-apps
     > make doc-make
     > make -f doc-make
     
     That's pretty great! Is the rebuild procedure documented somewhere?
     Otherwise it will be hard to find this email later.

There are some comments in doc/doc-make.in, but otherwise there is no
documentation.

     For myself, I'm working to get better output into the manuals. I'm most
     of the way toward getting good .png output from the cairo driver. I think
     that I've done the rest of the work already.

Using PNGs for pspp output will be okay, for the printed manuals,  but not so
good for somebody using the standalone info reader, or for somebody browsing
the HTML using a text only browser.

J'