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

[Norman Rasmussen]

Package: aptitude-doc-en
Version: 0.8.13-3
Followup-For: Bug #962926

With respect to asciinema: I found two asciicast to svg converters:
 - https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli (MIT)
 - https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg (BSD-3-Clause)

Both generated an animated svg by default, but have an option to extract
a single frame (svg-term-cli), or all frames (termtosvg). I found that
termtosvg rendered aptitude better than svg-term-cli.

I also tried the Secure Shell chrome extension (which uses hterm
internally, both nassh and hterm as BSD-3-Clause), and while it's
possible to capture a decent screenshot with it, the output is html and
not svg.

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.

Regards

Norman

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