I've been playing with mscgen in a document for which I produce both
PDF (via fop) and HTML output. When generating PDF, mscgen and the
associated filter work fine. When generating HTML, the .png generated
seems to be fixed at a single, low resolution and isn't very readable
on high-resolution displays.
Generating a low resolution image and displaying it unscaled produces
a small, not-very-readable diagram when viewed on high-resolution
displays. I believe that the size (subtended angle) of the figure
could be adjusted by adding a "width" tag to the HTML so that the
diagram was scaled to be some percentage of the column width. But,
doing that with the current low-resolution .png file will look ugly.
ISTM that much better results would be obtained by generating a
high-resolution image (e.g. 600dpi), and letting the browser scale it
down to fit the desired space on the rendered page (scaling down works
a lot better than scaling up). That would result in diagrams that
1) Had a predictable size on the screen (compared to column width).
2) Looks good even on high-resolution screens.
3) Can be printed without looking bad (printing a 72dpi diagram at
600 dpi is pretty ugly).
Is there some technical reason that won't work?
Taking another tack, what's the status of including SVG diagrams in
HTML output? I tried that with another toolchain a few years ago, and
most browsers didn't seem up to the task of rendering such pages.
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