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Re: [platform-releng-dev] Guidelines for making Eclipse screen shots
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Jean-Michel, Getting screen shots into a standardized, usable form is
trickly. The results vary a lot depending on the tools you use. We've been
burned by this in the past, so bdaly that we had to redo all the screeen
shots (it took one person over 20 hours). The instructions for Photoshop
were one way to produce a standardized image that looks good. If there are
other tools that can produce gifs that are "binary compatible", please
annotate the bug report with instructions for people using those tools.
---jim
Jean-Michel Lemieux/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Why must we use Photoshop with the customized color settings? Why can't I
simply take the
screen shot, open Paint or Gimp, crop, and then save as a gif file.
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't see
why we need to use Photoshop for this and then force the few that have it
to convert all
of our screen dumps. Maybe you could explain the reasoning behind the
color settings and then
some of us could simply use the same settings with Paint or Gimp.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel
Jim des Rivieres/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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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.
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