Bug#584590: salome: New binary package organization

[Adam C Powell IV]

clone 584590 -1
retitle -1 Reduce documentation size by more efficient image format
thanks

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:05 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On 2010/6/4 Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> [...]
> >      * Separate salome-doc for non-built docs, and salome-user-doc and
> >        salome-dev-doc for docs built using the usr_docs and dev_docs
> >        make targets (once Debian has the disk space for all ~600 MiB of
> >        docs!)
> [...]
> 
> Hello, we faced a similar problem in VTK, the vtk-doc package became
> huge at some point because a newer doxygen generates images with
> antialiased fonts.  Our first workaround has been to not use
> antialiased fonts by wrapping /usr/bin/dot:
>   http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/vtk.git;a=commitdiff;h=45a29f66
> Later won e generated images into SVG format, this is supported since
> doxygen 1.6.2; images are rendered much better and IIRC size is even
> smaller than with PNG non-antialiased fonts.
>   http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/vtk.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d9afe06
> I suggest to generate docs in SVG and see if salome-doc's size becomes
> reasonable.
> In KERNEL_SRC_5.1.3/doc/salome/gui/doxyfile.in:
>   -DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT       = jpg
>   +DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT       = svg
> 
> I am busy with other stuff and won't try that now.

Thanks again Denis.  I think this is a separate issue and deserves a
separate bug, as it's probably a lot easier and more straightforward to
close than the package organization.

-Adam
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