From: Roberto A. <ra...@ne...> - 2009-05-20 10:30:32
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On Wednesday 20 May 2009 04:29:36 Ben Finney wrote: > Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> writes: > > On 2009-05-19, Michael Foord wrote: > > > I am not using inline images. *Any* image I generate with rst2pdf > > > seems to become *huge* in the pdf. > > > > Seems like this is becoming an FAQ... > > Perhaps because of the expectation, justified IMO, that this should Just > Work by including the image, like it Just Works for the other reST > renderers. It can't. :width: 400 in HTML has an obvious meaning, 400 pixels in your screen. What should it mean in a PDF? If you tell me that I will implement it, no problem ;-) > > Why don't you just use fixed units like:: > > > > .. image:: testme.png > > > > :width: 5cm > > Why should the *source* document talk about the measurement units of the > *rendered* document? The PDF writer (‘rst2pdf’) is the one with all the > information necessary: it knows the image size, it knows the dimensions > of the area where the image needs to go in the rendered document. I > would expect the image to be scaled to fit if it's too large. No, it doesn't know the area where it needs to go unless you tell it (for example, by telling it it's 5cm wide). > > Alternatively, you can set the printing resolution of PNG and JPEG > > images, e.g. with Gimp or PIL. This allows to change the size in PDF > > without affecting the original image information (as a rescaling would > > do). > > Why should it be necessary to modify the image to suit one particular > output format, when part of the point of reST is to have a common source > format and the renderers take care of the specific output formats? Ok, tell me what width a 640x480 image with no DPI info should be on a A4 page. I'd love to know :-) -- ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) KDE Developer (MFCH) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' The 6,855th most popular site of Slovenia (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' according to alexa.com (27/5/2007) "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I said. We have a protractor. Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." — Neal Stephenson |