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Re[2]: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically
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Vadim Zeitlin |
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Re[2]: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically |
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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:21:39 +0100 |
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:07:50 +0100 Vaclav Slavik <address@hidden> wrote:
VS> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
VS> > Unfortunately I don't see how to do this automatically because the
VS> > placement of these annotations usually needs to be carefully chosen
VS> > manually to make them nicely looking or even just readable.
VS>
VS> I'd expect the techniques used for labels placement in GIS
VS> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_label_placement) to give good
VS> results here too -- it should be a simpler task, because we want the
VS> labels only around the screenshot, not all over the map. But I never
VS> tried, so it's at best an educated guest.
Yes, ok, I should have qualified my sentence above: I don't see how to
_easily_ do this automatically. I'm sure that this could be done by
spending enough time/effort on it but I'm not sure how appropriate would
this be in this case.
VS> > A variation: create a DIA file containing the screenshot and the text
VS> > boxes with the help text.
VS>
VS> ...and instead of generating it from scratch, only update the manually
VS> tweaked files and preserve placement changes.
Yes, this should still be relatively easy to do and would be almost
perfect, wouldn't it?
VS> A generic SVG editor is less useful than DIA -- DIA understands
VS> diagrams and you can e.g. drag a label without having to worry about
VS> the arrow, it will be updated automatically. That's not the case with
VS> generic vector graphics editors.
Right. But maybe there are some diagram SVG-based editors? As I said, I
really don't know any good tools here, DIA does work but is annoyingly
buggy.
VS> > I only know of Inkscape (and only because it uses wx)
VS>
VS> FYI, it uses gtkmm, not wx.
Sorry, I confused it with Xara (just to prove my point of not knowing
about the tools in this domain I guess).
Thanks,
VZ
- [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Greg Chicares, 2009/02/09
- Re: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Vadim Zeitlin, 2009/02/11
- Re: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Greg Chicares, 2009/02/14
- Re: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Greg Chicares, 2009/02/15
- Re[2]: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Vadim Zeitlin, 2009/02/16
- Re: Re[2]: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Vaclav Slavik, 2009/02/17
- Re: [lmi] Generating screenshots automatically, Greg Chicares, 2009/02/21