[WT-support] Win-Test Documentation PDF available again (2)

George K5KG georgek5kg at aol.com
Fri Sep 25 22:23:47 CEST 2015


Nice work, guys.

Many tnx, George, K5KG

On 9/24/2015 5:59 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> The Win-Test Manual 
> <http://docs.win-test.com/pdf/downloads/manual.pdf> looks much better 
> now, thanks Werner!
>
> I encourage everyone to download a copy of this PDF file to your PC.  
> This version is much easier to search than the Wiki pages.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Werner Maier <werner at maiers.de 
> <mailto:werner at maiers.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Bob,
>
>         I noticed many of the screen shots (PNG files) in the new PDF
>         do not seem
>         to be rendered correctly.  I think it may be an image
>         compression issue,
>
>
>     TL;DR: fixed.
>
>     Long version:
>
>     yes and no. somehow the htmldoc did do some PNG files wrong.
>     I could not find out what happened, it might be an incompatibility
>     issue
>     with the libpng libaries. installed is htmldoc from ubunut, 1.8.27.x.
>     on the htmldoc page I can find that in 1.8.28.x they changet the
>     bundled
>     imaging libraries...
>
>     but as I don't want to install something out of the distribution,
>     I managed
>     the following workaround:
>
>     - converted all pngs to gif (as the loss of information on those
>     screenshot
>      is not noticeable)
>     - fixed the static htmls to use the gifs instead of png
>     - build pdf from that files
>
>     positive side-effect: the PDF now is much smaller (19 MB instead
>     of 29MB).
>
>     73's de Werner DL4NER
>     --
>     Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Werner Maier
>     http://www.maiers.de/
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