From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 15 20:21:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailin8.bigpond.com (juicer39.bigpond.com [139.134.6.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B299A37B422; Tue, 15 May 2001 20:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.50]) by mailin8.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDES8Q00.JWG; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:26:50 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail8.bigpond.com (Claudes-Darwinian-MailRouter V2.9c 17/9875116); 16 May 2001 13:21:56 Message-ID: <05ac01c0ddb7$4b864be0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Murray Stokely" Cc: "Randy Pratt" , "Nik Clayton" , , "Jim Mock" References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> <04ac01c0dd8b$f9cb8070$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010515173215.I57568@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:21:27 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:11:21AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > A couple questions .... I presume the screenshots were captured within > > X Windows using something like Gimp ..... if thats the case then how > > are the really early stage screenshots eg "Kernel Configuration Menu" > > done ?? > > Installing through a serial console in an xterm would be one > option. Another would be to just take screenshots of the meticulously > created HTML that Randy crafted to look just like screenshots. > Hmmmmm .... never thought of the serial console approach but sounds marginally feasible for me. I don't have any problem grabbing screenshots of Randys stuff but that just lands me back where I started (huge jpgs). Maybe I can just pirate his html format though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message