[l2h] figures - in html and in ps

[Don Murray]

Ross - thanks very much.  I went with the conditional coding solution so 
that I can do a "custom fix" to both sets of media.  Works like a charm.
Thanks again,
Don

Ross Moore wrote:

> Hello Don,
>
> On 11/02/2006, at 12:32 PM, Don wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all - my first post to l2h after lurking a bit.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how I can have a set of instructions for my  
>> figures for the html and a different set for the .ps generation?   
>> Basically I'm screwing around trying to control the size of my  
>> images in the figure environment.  I am using something like:
>>
>> \begin{figure*}
>> \htmlimage{notransparent,width=3in,align=left}
>> \includegraphics{images/inn1.ps}  \\
>> \end{figure*}
>>
>> But I want the document I am creating to be equally readable in .ps  
>> and .html, and I usually find that the size for the .ps is too big  
>> when I have the .html size just right.
>
>
> This is a common problem, due to the different resolutions
> required for onscreen and printed outputs.
>
> There are various things that you can try.
>
> A.
> Firstly, there is a variable  $IMAGE_SCALE_FACTOR
> that allows you to specify a scaling for the images
> that LaTeX2HTML generates.
> The default value is 1.6. You may want to make
> it either larger or smaller, according to your
> own requirements.
>
> B.
> Another nice trick is to only place "thumbnail"
> images on the HTML pages. These are hyperlinks
> to a full-sized version of the image.
> This allows the images to not dominate the web-page,
> while allowing just 1-click access to the full detail.
>
> \htmlimage{thumbnail=.25}  is enough to get thumnails
> at 1/4 size of the full-sized image.
>
>
> C.
> Another strategy is to use "conditional" coding,
> as follows:
>
> \begin{figure*}
> \begin{makeimage}
> \end{makeimage}
> \htmladdimg{../images/inn1.png}
> %begin{latexonly}
> \includegraphics{images/inn1.ps}
> %end{latexonly}
> \caption{....}\label{...}
> \end{figure*}
>
> Here inn1.png  is a .png version of your image which
> you may have created with an earlier run of LaTeX2HTML,
> at exactly the desired size for web-pages.
>
> The empty \begin{makeimage}...\end{makeimage} tells
> LaTeX2HTML to *not* create an image for this {figure},
> but to still create the correct HTML layout for
> the contents, which is just  inn1.png  + captions, etc.
>
> In a normal LaTeX run, both  \htmladdimg  and
> the {makeimage} environment are ignored, so you just
> get  inn.ps  as expected.
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>     Ross
>
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