Thank you! We'll do exactly that. Thanks too, for the great tools. Regards, -red
-----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:42 AM To: Richard Edwards Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] image sizing for PDFs and Xhtml On 01/26/2011 07:47 PM, Richard Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to size PNG images in DITA source so that they are rendered > in appropriate sizes in PDF (via FOP) and Xhtml. > > The image size in pixels makes them display OK in Xhtml, but they > display stretched in the PDF. > > Setting the scale attribute makes the image display OK in PDF but too > small in Xhtml. > > I've been looking for a way to set the pixel size in FOP, or some other > way to control the image size in PDF. > > Is there a way to get images sized for both media? > In the principle, the answer is: set the width attribute in the DITA source but do not use pixels, instead use a unit such as pc, pt, px, in, cm, mm, em. The problem is that we forgot to support these units[*] in the case of the XHTML output. We'll fix this omission in the next release. For now, the workaround is to save your PNG images with a resolution higher than 72dpi (which is FOP default). You may try 96dpi or even 120dpi. Using the Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/), this done by selecting menu item "Image|Print Size". --- [*] We have confused a "Length" in the HTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-length) with a "Length" in the CSS spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#value-def-length). -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
