Re: [docbook-apps] Images not getting output in all formats using Oxygen 14.0

[Paul Taylor <paul_t100@fastmail.fm>]

On 27/09/2012 07:00, Radu Coravu wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Please see some answers below:
>
> > Html and Xhtml do not copy the images folder, so the image link is 
> > broken
>
> Basically the standard Docbook HTML and XHTML transformations apply 
> XSLT stylesheets on the Docbook XML files. The XSLT processing does 
> not copy images or any other binary resource to a particular folder so 
> you would have to do this yourself, or run an automated script which 
> does this.
>
> > Pdf outputs the image far too large so it cannot fit on the page (the 
> > image is 800 pixels wide.
>
> You are probably using Apache FOP, right?
> Usually this is related to the DPI used by Apache FOP to render the 
> images.
> Actually there have been recent discussions on the DITA Users List 
> about such issues also:
I just select the Docbook PDF transformation, but there is only one type 
(Xml with XSLT)
> > http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/28512
>
> In the "OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\lib\fop-config.xml" you should try to 
> increase the values for "source-resolution" and "target-resolution" 
> and see if it helps.
> If that does not help, here is another suggestion I gave to someone 
> having the same problem and who was using GIMP for editing PNG images:
Tried this anyway, not expecting it to work but it did , so bit confused 
but thankyou !
> > What I did on my side was to edit with GIMP the image called "test.png"
> > and in the Image menu I chose "Scale Image", modified the X and Y 
> > resolutions to 110 and then chose "Scale" and saved the image.
>
>
> > WebHelp outputs the image just right.
>
> The WebHelp output (either the one which comes with Docbook or the 
> customized Oxygen WebHelp) executes an ANT transformation which 
> besides applying the XSLT stylesheets on the XML files does additional 
> operations like copying image folders to the output folder.
Yes realized later on I could copy the images over myself so not such a 
big deal, but a bit inconsistent don't you think ?
As much as possible I want to create one help file and not consider the 
output formats at all whilst writing it, then one click I want it 
rendered nicely for each formats

Paul