[FM Discuss] Optimizing images for printing

[James Simmons]

Tomi,

I have lots of screen grabs, etc. in my books.  I use The GIMP to resize
them to a width of 600 pixels and preserve the existing aspect ratio.  I've
gotten good results this way.  It is much better to use GIMP to resize your
pictures than to specify a size in the IMG tag.

James Simmons

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does somebody have a procedure for optimizing manual images for printing?
> What is the best file format? What is the best way to reduce the image size
> without the quality being reduced? GIMP? Any guidelines for this?
>
> Actually there should probably be a manual on how to use pictures on FLOSS
> Manuals...
>
> There have been some timeout errors when trying to publish books on the
> Finnish site, after debugging this for a while it started to seem like the
> web hosting organization had just changed timeout settings when they
> updated the servers about a week ago. Now the timeout on our server is 120,
> which means that usually the book publishing process gets a timeout when
> trying to publish the PDF. Sometimes it manages to do it in less than 120
> seconds and the process finishes without error. So the timeout settings
> should be increased to at least 360 or more?
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Tomi Toivio
> Open Source Coordinator
> http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
> tomi at flossmanuals.net
> +358445488856
>
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