[Aptitude-devel] Bug#962926: Images of aptitude screens are illegible due to being scaled to browser width

[David Kalnischkies]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 06:43:26PM -0800, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> I'm not sure how much switching to svg would help overall. Removing the
> 100% width would probably help the most. Refreshing the images at a
> higher resolution wouldn't hurt either. Both are easier than trying to
> change the image format.

I guess in this case a HTML "screenshot" is really the best as there are
no fancy graphics you would need to catch the shape of but all glyphs
found in a font – which in SVG would usually need to be converted to
shapes which can be scaled, but do not have hinting and such (although
that might lead to differences between screenshot and reality if the
renderer chooses to perform different hinting, ligatures or whatever).

I think this document can be rendered in other formats than HTML though,
so you might need something for that case, too. Also, the second
screenshot on the example given in the bugreport with the opened menu is
probably not that understandable if a screenreader would read that out,
so screenshots will probably still need an explainer even if they can be
technically read… I am not blind though, so I can't really judge that
with certainty.


Anyway, the 100% was probably chosen for displays smaller than the
screenshot as the user would need to do horizontal scrolling then.
I guess I would use the equivalent of

```css
.screenshot { text-align: center; }
.screenshot img { width: 100%; max-width: max-content; }
```

in the document so that the screenshot isn't scaled into oblivion on
(very) width screens. This still allows users to zoom the page which
will also zoom the images. Meanwhile on small screens no horizontal
scrolling is needed and on wide screens no scaling is performed by
default (and due to the first line the image is centered on the page
because I personally prefer that style…).


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
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