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| ====== Preferences ====== | ====== Preferences ====== | ||
| - | Please make all videos and images in standard sizes and colors. This makes it much easier to display them in [[http://chaosbook.org/tutorials/index.html|web tutorials]] etc. | + | Please make all videos and images in standard sizes and colors. This makes it much easier to display them in [[http://chaosbook.org/tutorials/index.html|web tutorials]] etc. --Predrag |
| ===== Videos ===== | ===== Videos ===== | ||
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| * framing: please **crop movies** so they have as little dead area along the edges as possible | * framing: please **crop movies** so they have as little dead area along the edges as possible | ||
| - | ===== Figures ===== | + | ====== Images ====== |
| * pre-publication quality images | * pre-publication quality images | ||
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| + | ===== How to resize PNGs ===== | ||
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| + | To convert a PNG figure to the pixel size you prefer, use the ImageMagick %%convert%% command. For example, | ||
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| + | <code> | ||
| + | convert -resize 400x300 bigfig.png justright.png | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| + | converts the 560x420 pixel figure %%bigfig.png%% to a 400x300 pixel figure %%justright.png%%. | ||
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| + | {{:gtspring2009:howto:bigfig.png|bigfig.png}} {{:gtspring2009:howto:justright.png|justright.png}} | ||