changeset 45:aac9290f9808

updated man page to the use of resize-gd
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:04:55 +0200
parents 039f9a8b823b
children b991e188f1fa
files genwebgallery.1
diffstat 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/genwebgallery.1	Mon Jun 23 19:38:33 2008 +0200
+++ b/genwebgallery.1	Mon Jun 23 20:04:55 2008 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.TH GENWEBGALLERY 1 "genwebgallery\-0.7" "2008\-06\-05" "genwebgallery"
+.TH GENWEBGALLERY 1 "genwebgallery\-0.8" "2008\-06\-23" "genwebgallery"
 
 .SH NAME
-genwebgallery \- generates  minimalistic web galleries
+genwebgallery \- generates minimalistic web galleries
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B genwebgallery [OPTIONS] PICTURES
@@ -14,13 +14,20 @@
 .IR webgallery .
 Or any other directory specified by \-\-output.
 .PP
-Files are skipped if
-.B convert
-fails in conversion.
+Files are skipped if resizing is not successful. So it depends on the resize program.
 .PP
 The
-.BR convert
-tool from ImageMagick is required.
+.BR mogrify
+tool from ImageMagick, or
+.BR resize\-gd
+is required.
+
+.B mogrify
+is the prefered resizing tool, cause of its (assumed) better quality.
+.B resize\-gd
+on the other hand has much less dependencies, but still provides everything that's needed here. It is used, if
+.B mogrify
+is not installed. If none of them is available, the program will abort.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
@@ -86,10 +93,10 @@
 Any other error
 .TP
 .B 2
-The required program
-.B convert
-could not be found. It's probably not installed.
-Normally it is provided by the ImageMagick tool collection.
+None of the supported image resize programs was found. These are:
+.B mogrify
+from the ImageMagick tool collection, and
+.B resize\-gd
 .TP
 .B 3
 The output directory already exists and the user wanted to keep it.
@@ -98,16 +105,17 @@
 The output directory already exists and the user wanted it to be deleted, but it was not possible.
 
 .SH BUGS
-.B convert
+.B mogrify
 fails the conversion of the XCF image format of GIMP, but it exits with 0 anyway. This looks like a bug in the
-.B convert
+.B mogrify
 program.
 As result the image is added to the gallery but it is not viewable.
 Other formats might be affected as well.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.BR convert (1),
-.BR ImageMagick (1).
+.BR mogrify (1),
+.BR ImageMagick (1),
+.BR resize\-gd (1).
 
 .SH AUTHOR
 genwebgallery and this man page were written by markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>