From 6a4cbfccbd649b6e9dd92be74d106f7a8336a264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:57:51 +0100 Subject: soon, convert will not be used MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo') 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. + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2