Okay, noted.<div><br></div><div>I'll try to keep that in mind as I work on some of my remaining chapters. Though in general we probably won't get people to recreate all their screenshots in the original size again so we'll have to work with what we've got.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Samuel Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think it is easier to just upload the high res version once, even if<br>
you explicitly mean to use one of the smaller versions for some<br>
offline project.<br>
<br>
Fred - you are right that the /directory trees/ of thumbnails are now<br>
not browsable,but all of the individual thumbnails are world-readable.<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Green_and_white_machine.jpg/150px-Green_and_white_machine.jpg" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/images/thumb/6/6c/Green_and_white_machine.jpg/150px-Green_and_white_machine.jpg</a><br>
<br>
SJ<br>
<br>
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Christoph Derndorfer<br>
<div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Christoph Derndorfer<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:31 PM, S Page <<a href="mailto:skierpage@gmail.com">skierpage@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 16:07, Christoph Derndorfer<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> > If jumping over these extra hurdles bring a lot of value and can be<br>
>>>> > described<br>
>>>> > in simple terms then I'm all for it<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Good point. I see you're writing "MISSING IMAGE", that's fine too.<br>
>>>> My alternative lets a writer show a placeholder image, see<br>
>>>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Skierpage#Placeholder_images" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Skierpage#Placeholder_images</a> . Either<br>
>>>> way makes it easy to find missing images.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I documented both under<br>
>>>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I notice the instructions say 800px wide screenshots. I think it's<br>
>>>> faster/better to leave them at 1200 wide and tell the HTML or markup<br>
>>>> to display them smaller.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi there,<br>
>>><br>
>>> thanks a lot for adding the instructions<br>
>>> to <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh#Images</a>, much appreciated.<br>
>>><br>
>>> As for the width of the screenshots we chose the 800px wide because that<br>
>>> works well for consumption on the XOs (as it leaves plenty of space for a<br>
>>> menu, etc.).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> When a 1200x900 pixel image is uploaded to the wiki and then displayed at<br>
>> an alternate size, such as with the [[File:Screenshot<br>
>> wanted.png|800px|ActivityName screenshot]] wiki code, then the wiki resizes<br>
>> and saves a .png copy of the image at 800 pixel width in an /images/thumb/<br>
>> branch folder.<br>
>> See, for example, all the sizes saved here:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/9/95/Journal_tag_mockup_frm_gary_v1.png/" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/9/95/Journal_tag_mockup_frm_gary_v1.png/</a><br>
>><br>
>> (Direct navigation to the thumb branches on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org" target="_blank">wiki.laptop.org</a> has been<br>
>> blocked. One only sees the message, "Down for upgrades. Come back<br>
>> tomorrow!")<br>
>><br>
>> The 120px and 320px images are saved for the thumbnail and preview on the<br>
>> File page. The others are generated when a new cropping width is requested<br>
>> by some wiki code. This allows the wiki server to cache the images for<br>
>> better performance. This also means that the XO laptop, or any browser does<br>
>> not need to process the original image size.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Hi Fred,<br>
><br>
> sorry for the slow reply.<br>
><br>
> Re-reading your message now I'm not sure what exactly you're suggesting<br>
> here. It sounds to me like getting the thumbails out of the wiki afterwards<br>
> is a bigger hassle than taking the 15 seconds it takes to resize the<br>
> original image and upload that one. Or am I missing something here?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Christoph<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> --Fred<br>
>><br>
>>> I see little value in keeping the 1200px wide version (with the exception<br>
>>> of reducing one step in the image work) as we can't count on having the<br>
>>> manpower to do extensive post-processing, resizing of all images, funky<br>
>>> exporting, etc. once everyone leaves here in just over 48 hours...<br>
>>><br>
>>> Christoph<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Christoph Derndorfer<br>
>>><br>
>>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]<br>
>>> editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>
>>> contributor, TechnikBasteln [<a href="http://www.technikbasteln.net" target="_blank">www.technikbasteln.net</a>]<br>
>>><br>
>>> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a><br>
>><br>
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