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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: selecting imagedata for fo and html,scaling using depth
/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say: | On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:37:07AM -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote: |> I would like to use a scaled high-resolution image for |> fo and an unscaled lower resolution image for html output. |> |> [workaround using scaling] | | You have raised a good issue regarding | the processing of images. Quoting the Definitive Guide | reference page for <mediaobject>: | | "For example, a MediaObject might contain a video, a high | resolution image, a low resolution image, a long text | description, and a short text description. In a 'high | end' online system, the video is used. For print | publishing, the high resolution image is used. For other | online systems, either the high or low resolution image is | used, possibly including the short text description as the | online alternative. In a text-only environment, either the | long or short text descriptions are used. " | | This sounds like exactly what you want, but | the current XSL stylesheets don't do this. The html | and fo stylesheets both use the same 'select.mediaobject' | template, which is in common/common.xsl. That template | currently doesn't try to select an image appropriate for | its output medium. I suspect this is just an unfinished | feature of the stylesheets. Right. I'm not sure I knew how unfinished until today, but... I've always assumed that one would use the format to distinguish the images (high-res .EPS for print and low-res .PNG for HTML) but that's not going to be sufficient. A class attribute? Roles? PIs? Hmmm... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Man's great misfortune is that he http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | has no organ, no kind of eyelid or Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | brake, to mask or block a thought, | or all thought, when he wants | to.--Val\'ery
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