[FM Discuss] Border on Reading And Sugar images

[James Simmons]

Adam,

Anne Gentle was correct.  I needed to give my images a transparent
background.  I did this by opening them in The GIMP, selecting the
white areas with the magic wand selection tool, inverting the
selection, cutting the selection and pasting it as a new image.  The
new image has a transparent background.  I then resized them to 200
pixels wide so they all have a uniform width.  I'm pretty happy with
the results.

The new images are being uploaded to the FM server and I'm fixing the
pages to use them.  So far so good.

James Simmons


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:24 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> first, i am note sure what you ware talking about. are you talking about
> the pdf or the manual as it appears online? please state which issue
> refers to which output.
>
> also you are not really following the 'fm format' which in plain words
> is 'dont use style or any custom css'. if you follow the 'plain vanilla'
> fm format, things look good.
>
> but here a few pointers:
> images have to be 600px wide for fm online manuals
>
> the background in fm html pages is not white. so if you want the image
> to blend with the background in the online manual dont use white.
>
> with fm online manuals or objavi 1 pdf, you cannot align images. if you
> wish to align them then you need to work out how to handle this with css
> and objavi 2
>
> as for the pdf objavi 2 stuff...yep, i agree - you just need to keep
> experimenting :) maybe someone else has some tips for css things you can
> try for the images
>
>
>
> adam
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:40 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> Yesterday the RDC put a lot of images into ReadingAndSugar.  These
>> images are aligned right and have a white background which *should*
>> blend in with the white page background.  Instead, they have a left
>> border and a top border which is kind of ugly.  The border does NOT
>> seem to be part of the image.  It really wrecks the effect we were
>> going for with the images and I'm hoping we can do something about it.
>>
>> Another concern with these images is that when I create a PDF using
>> exactly the same style sheet I use for MYOSA I get this:
>>
>> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ReadingandSugar-en-2010.09.02-23.21.56.pdf
>>
>> The art is the wrong size, is not aligned correctly, and seems to be
>> messing up the chapter headings.
>>
>> One temporary workaround I can think of is to create resized versions
>> of the art no more than 200 pixels wide and place them in the text
>> using the IMG tag and no right alignment.  This is not as nice as what
>> we were attempting to do, but it might be the only way we can get a
>> decent PDF out the door.
>>
>> James Simmons
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