Re: svg->png conversion in doc build

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:20:26PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2009-08-16, Graham Percival wrote:
> > We need png versions of the svg images in Documentation/pictures/.
> > The current web branch stores pngs in git (see site/graphics/).
> > This is obviously my preference, since it simplifies the build
> > process.
> 
> I see that annotated-demo.svg is not used anywhere.  Do we want to use
> this file?

Well, it was copies into master by accident.  If anybody speaks in
favor of that image -- and suggests a good location -- then I
don't mind using it.

> > If that's not acceptable, then could somebody add a rule to
> > Documentation/pictures/GNUmakefile to generate appropriately-sized
> > pngs from those svgs?  (whenever I try fumbling around with
> > imagemagick or inkscape, I get a full-page png with tons of blank
> > space)
> 
> We could resize the SVG images.  Would that be okay?  Then we could
> easily convert them to PNG with imagemagick.

I don't care how it's done.  I just want to end up with images
just like the old website site/graphics/*.png.  And I'm sick of
screwing around with the build process.

Cheers,
- Graham