Karen
It really depends on the content of your images. The images can be scaled
in Docbook for print & display but those two methods should have very
different size ratios (i.e.an online image is usually lower DPI than what is
used in print). This matters in the time to load web pages and also the
time to download a PDF or Word file.
We have found that most of our images work best as PNG formated.
However, there are a few times where JPG is probably better (i.e some
scaled screenshots look better as JPG). Most IEs handle PNGs fine now. In the
past I have stayed away from GIFs because I really try to stay with only one or
two common formats.
Regards,
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 8/6/2009 9:53:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
As we
work on our styleguide, proof of concept, and other stuff that
our
Documentation Interest Group is doing to lay the groundwork for
our
project, we wondered if DocBook users had strong feelings about
image
formats. We will be working with screenshots, and our expected
DocBook
output is HTML, PDF, and possibly Word (for libraries that
want to tailor
documents locally but aren't XML-savvy).
I understand that IE has never
really implemented PNG really well.
That may not be a showstopper (given
that we're an open source
community, so IE is not exactly the favored
browser). Any other
cautions/advice are welcome (I just saw the thread
about PNG and FO).
My gut reaction going in is to focus on one format and
make it work,
with a tendency to want to use PNG because the list traffic
for
docbook-apps lists it so frequently.
Also -- not quite as
important -- last night, while reading up on
DocBook (how else to spend a
summer evening?) I encountered
this:
http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/appe.html
"The CD-ROM is
like a spoon" ??? :-)
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