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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo | 11 |
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diff --git a/doc/info/chap/invoking.texinfo b/doc/info/chap/invoking.texinfo index 25c0b25..d418fc2 100644 --- a/doc/info/chap/invoking.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/chap/invoking.texinfo @@ -4,26 +4,30 @@ @command{scrotty} recognises four options: @table @option -@item --help +@item -h +@itemx --help Print usage information and exit. -@item --version +@item -v +@itemx --version Print program name and version and exit. -@item --copyright +@item -c +@itemx --copyright Print copyright information and exit. -@item --raw +@item -r +@itemx --raw Save the images in portable anymap format -(PNM), rather than in Portable Network -Graphics (PNG). If this option is used, -and no arguments for @command{convert} -is specified, @command{convert} will not -be used, and there will be not requirement -to have ImageMagick installed. +(@sc{PNM}), rather than in Portable Network +Graphics (@sc{PNG}). -PNM images are highly compressable with +@sc{PNM} images are highly compressable with @command{bzip2}. Compressed images are comparable in size with @sc{PNG},@footnote{Usually a few bytes in difference.} and can in fact be smaller. -@item --exec CMD + +@sc{PNM} is a good alternative for anything +but storage. (Unless you compress them.) +@item -e +@itemx --exec CMD Run a command for each saved image. @end table diff --git a/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo b/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo index f5d1ff3..26765f4 100644 --- a/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo @@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ rendered on the framebuffer.} @command{scrotty} is designed after @command{scrot}, but includes a some improvements. Namely it does not support delaying the screenshot, selecting image quality or creating -thumbnails, but it has support for adding arbitrary arguments -to @command{convert} (from the ImageMagick project), which -is used to save the image. +thumbnails. Such operations is left to be done by the user +with the option @option{--exec} and a utility such as +@command{convert} (from the ImageMagick project.) @command{scrotty} reads the data stored in the framebuffers, convert it the @sc{PNM} images and pipes it to @command{convert} to create @sc{PNG} images. +@command{scrotty} can appear to be a bit slow. This is not +@command{scrotty}'s fault. Reading a framebuffer, even if +not processing the data, takes time. In fact, screenshots +for @sc{X} are slow too. + |