Re: Texinfo Image Re-Scaling for Papersize

[Christopher Dimech]

I can see your point.


> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 12:01 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Texinfo Image Re-Scaling for Papersize
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:37:33AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > Recently small page sizes (e.g. @bsixpaper) was added.  I have some 
> > documents
> > with images of a certain size for B5 Paper, which get too large and some 
> > parts
> > get  of the image gets cut off.
> >
> > Could Texinfo be made to adjust the image size accordingly as is done with 
> > text
> > to fit smaller pages.  How about a flag that telling Texinfo the dafault 
> > paper
> > size to use for the height and width of the image.  Then if a user needs to 
> > use
> > a smaller paper size. the height and width get re-scaled according to the 
> > smaller
> > or larger paper size.
> >
>
> I don't think it could work.  Some images may be fine without
> rescaling, just taking up a larger percentage of the page.  Some images
> may be too small if they are scalead; for example, diagrams with
> small details.  Only the document author can know whether an image
> should be scaled, and by how much.
>
> Did you experiment with the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters to @image?
>