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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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* color: use **white background** | * color: use **white background** | ||
* 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 | ||
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===== Figures ===== | ===== Figures ===== | ||
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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}} |