Author: aprime
Date: Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
New Revision: 733514
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=733514&view=rev
Log:
updated documentation regarding netpbm
Modified:
perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER
perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod
Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER?rev=733514&r1=733513&r2=733514&view=diff
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--- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER (original)
+++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@
[auto-props]
*.dia = svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream
-dia generates .png files via its export method. As older browsers
-won't recognize .png or crash, we want to use gifs instead. Here is
-how to convert png files to gif files:
+dia generates .png files via its export method. Really old browsers
+don't recognize .png so it was previously recommended to convert the
+.png files to gifs. However, all current browsers have acceptable png
+support, so you can leave them in that format. If for some reason you
+want to convert the files to gif, you can do it like this:
perl -le 'for (@ARGV) { print STDERR "converting $_\n"; \ s/\.\w+$//; \
system "pngtopnm $_.png | pnmquant 256 | ppmtogif > $_.gif" } ' *.png
+pngtopnm, pnmquant, and ppmtogif are all part of netpbm, which is
+available at:
+http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod?rev=733514&r1=733513&r2=733514&view=diff
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--- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod (original)
+++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@
For the PDF version, you will also need a command-line tool called
C<ps2pdf>, which is included with the Ghostscript distribution: see
-http://www.ghostscript.com/ . You will probably also need the
-I<netpbm> package.
-
- META: we need specifics about netpbm
+http://www.ghostscript.com/ .
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Date: Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
New Revision: 733514
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=733514&view=rev
Log:
updated documentation regarding netpbm
Modified:
perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER
perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod
Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER?rev=733514&r1=733513&r2=733514&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER (original)
+++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/MAINTAINER Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@
[auto-props]
*.dia = svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream
-dia generates .png files via its export method. As older browsers
-won't recognize .png or crash, we want to use gifs instead. Here is
-how to convert png files to gif files:
+dia generates .png files via its export method. Really old browsers
+don't recognize .png so it was previously recommended to convert the
+.png files to gifs. However, all current browsers have acceptable png
+support, so you can leave them in that format. If for some reason you
+want to convert the files to gif, you can do it like this:
perl -le 'for (@ARGV) { print STDERR "converting $_\n"; \ s/\.\w+$//; \
system "pngtopnm $_.png | pnmquant 256 | ppmtogif > $_.gif" } ' *.png
+pngtopnm, pnmquant, and ppmtogif are all part of netpbm, which is
+available at:
+http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod?rev=733514&r1=733513&r2=733514&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod (original)
+++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/download/docs.pod Sun Jan 11 12:35:36 2009
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@
For the PDF version, you will also need a command-line tool called
C<ps2pdf>, which is included with the Ghostscript distribution: see
-http://www.ghostscript.com/ . You will probably also need the
-I<netpbm> package.
-
- META: we need specifics about netpbm
+http://www.ghostscript.com/ .
=head2 Normal build process
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