[kde-doc-english]Making locolor screenshots with Keramik < 10 kb?

[Lauri Watts]

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On Saturday 26 October 2002 20.44, Christian Nitschkowski wrote:
> Hi!
> I've got a question regarding screenshots for an apps documentation.
>
> I've developed a small application for KDE and have a docbook-manual for
> it. Now I want the final release to have screenshots in the manual.
>
> I read on http://i18n.kde.org/doc/screenshots.php that I should use Keramik
> style and Keramik window decorations and that X should be in 8 bit mode.
> But:
> - Keramik isn't available when X is in 8 bit mode
> - Even small screenshots are already ~7 kb, bigger ones will surely get
> bigger than 10 kb
> - To get Keramik working again, I have to switch back to 16 bit mode and
> screenshots are bigger than 10 kb, even when reduced to 256 indexed colors.
>
> What should I do now?
> Ignore the 10 kb limit?

Option 3: wait for me to update the page, I just discovered the same problems.  
The 10 kb is probably going to have to be raised a little, but I just made 
several in the 12-15kb size range, so it's not too bad.

Run KDE in 16 or 24 bit, making sure it's at 72 dpi (this is the key to the 
small file sizes.)  

You can get rather good screenshots with this command line, using the utility 
"import" from the ImageMagick suite.

"import --depth 8 --dither --frame --quality 100 <filename>.png"
run this in a terminal, hit enter, the cursor will change to a cross shape, 
click on the window you want to screenshot, and it will be saved to 
<filename>.  Omit --frame if you just want the window contents and not the 
window decoration.  KSnapshot doesn't do too bad a job, but you'll have to 
reduce the size in gimp or something like it yourself.

> And what about the icon theme?
> Should I use Crystal when making the screenshots or HighColor?

Crystal, it is the default. 

I'll update the web page too.

Regards,
- -- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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