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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] excluding image format according to output
By the way, you don't need a customization to select the PDF, you can now use the role attribute on your imageobjects. See: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GraphicSelection.html#SelectByRole Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Camille Bégnis" <camille@neodoc.biz> To: <davep@dpawson.co.uk>; "apps docbook" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] excluding image format according to output > Dave Pawson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 08:43 +0200, Camille Bégnis wrote: > > > > > >>Yes that's it: PNG (bitmap) quality in printed material is not > >>comparable to the vector based format quality. > > > > > > Would you expand on that please Camille. > > I certainly don't understand. > > > > I use SVG for 'vector' diagrams. > > I don't think I can get bit mapped images > > from that though. > > This is what happens to me: I use PNG for screenshots for both PDF and > HTML output formats. Then I wanted to insert a diagram exported in EPS > format from the editor for PDF output, and PNG for HTML. Obviously I > cannot use the PNG for PDF because it is bad quality. > > As PDF can embed vector graphics in it, this is the insurance that best > possible quality, in terms of resolution, will be achieved at print time. > > As I don't want the processor to exclude all PNGs for PDF (because of > screenshots) I had to use the following: > > <mediaobject> > <imageobject> > <imagedata align="center" fileref="images/animation-fig.pdf" > format="PDF" width="15cm"/> > </imageobject> > <imageobject> > <imagedata align="center" fileref="images/animation-fig.png" > format="JPG"/> > </imageobject> > </mediaobject> > > and exclude JPG for fo output in customization layer... > > Hope it's clear now, > > Camille. >
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