[platform-releng-dev] Guidelines for making Eclipse screen shots

[Jim des Rivieres <Jim_des_Rivieres@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ref: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67575

Guidelines for making screen shots for Eclipse help books.

Display setup for standard Eclipse 3.0 screen shots:

- OS: Windows XP only
- Display Properties  > Settings > Screen Resolution: 1024 by 768 pixels; 
Color Quality: Highest (32 bit)
- Display Properties > Themes > Theme: Windows XP
- Display Properties > Appearance > Windows and Buttons: Windows XP Style; 

Color Scheme:  Default (blue); Font Size: Normal

Photoshop 7 setup (Photoshop 6 and Photoshop CS are similar):

- Edit > Color Settings... > Load srgb-eclipse.csf (attached).

(1) To make a screen shot, press Alt+Print Screen key to scrape current 
window 
to clipboard.

(2) In Photoshop, press Ctrl+N (File > New) to create a new image 
document.
(Width, Height, and Resolution are filled in automatically.)
Mode: RGB Color
Contents: Transparent

(3) Press Ctrl+V (Edit > Paste)

(4) File > Save for Web...
Settings: GIF No Dither 128
Save
For image file names, be especially careful of mixed upper case (Windows 
preserves but otherwise ignores case for file name; however, this is not 
true 
for the Unix systems that run infocenters that serve up help books). If 
you 
have a choice, use only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphen "-".  Avoid 
upper or mixed case, spaces, underscores "_", and other characters.  E.g., 

screen-shot-1.gif
When re-doing a screen shot, be sure to use exactly the same file name and 

extension, and be sure to adjust the height and width parameters in the 
<img> 
to match (or better still, remove height and width altogether).

For those who do not have handy access to Photoshop but do have access to 
Lotus Notes, paste the clipboard into a Lotus Notes message and mail it to 

someone who does and ask them to convert it for you. Since raw screen 
bitmaps 
are huge, send each shot in a separate mail message.