[Slackdocs] New Slackware Linux Installation Images and its {paths|names}

Nocturnal Slacker nocturnal.slacker at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 31 17:47:13 CEST 2012


On 08/31/2012 09:26 AM, Emilio Hodge wrote:
> Didier Spaier wrote:
>> On 31/08/2012 00:51, Emilio Hodge wrote:
>>> Didier Spaier wrote:
>>>> You'll find in the tarball some shots that I have taken from a
>>>> Slackware 14 RC2 installation.
>>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I hope you do not mind but i recreated the images, unfortunately I
>>> had to start over because the screenshot software found it necessary
>>> to "improve" the images . As you can see in slackware:install the
>>> images are much smaller and crispier. I finish them tomorrow and
>>> shall put them in the media manager.
>>> Emilio
>>>
>> No problem, I am just sorry for the additional work you had to do.
>>
>> I just checked that the shots I sent, taken with the "scrot"
>> application with the default quality image of 75 in a 1-100 range,
>> have a geometry of 640 x 480, that is to say the screen size of the VM.
>>
>> For the future, maybe some kind of specification or recommendation for
>> the images to include in pages, like dimensions, weight, resolution,
>> file type, whatever, would help avoid this kind of situation?
>>
>> Sorry to add this item to the already big enough todo list ;)
>>
> Created install images with and without borders, I placed them in Media
> Manager slackware:install. It are png images with indexed colors to keep
> the size as small as possible. I took the screenshots with Screenshot
> which does no dithering to "improve" the image. Conversion was done with
> Gimp.
>
> Emilio

BUSY fellow! Thank you, Emilio, for all that great work!


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