Added documentation about .vimrc.

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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ You'll need:
     stuff, you might even need the latest AFPL version from CVS, if you
     can live with its license.) http://www.ghostscript.com/ has it all.
   - vim (http://www.vim.org/).
     stuff, you might even need the latest AFPL version from CVS, if you
     can live with its license.) http://www.ghostscript.com/ has it all.
   - vim (http://www.vim.org/).

+  - gnome-web-photo, currently only available from GNOME's CVS
+    (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-web-photo/, do
+    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-web-photo
+    to check out).

 
 [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
 
 
 [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
 


@@ -31,6 +35,10 @@ Xvfb will do nicely:
 
   nohup Xvfb :25 &
 
 
   nohup Xvfb :25 &
 

+(Note that gnome-web-photo seems to be a bit picky about the color depth.
+If you get all black images in your PDFs, add "-screen scrn 800x600x24"
+to the Xvfb command line and see if it helps.)
+

 Then, you'll need to log in as the CGI user (yes, yuck :-) ), run
 OpenOffice.org for the first time, accept the license etc. Then you'll have
 to add a new printer -- use spadmin (in the same directory as soffice), add
 Then, you'll need to log in as the CGI user (yes, yuck :-) ), run
 OpenOffice.org for the first time, accept the license etc. Then you'll have
 to add a new printer -- use spadmin (in the same directory as soffice), add


@@ -42,6 +50,18 @@ output PostScript, but OK). It's going to be a “PDF converter”, using
 as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
 set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
 
 as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
 set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
 

+
+Special vim configuration
+
+You might want a simple .vimrc for your user as well; mine reads
+
+  set fileencodings=utf-8,iso8859-1
+  syn on
+  set bg=dark
+  
+(Yes, for some reason bg=dark looks better when printing. Don't ask me why.)
+
+

 Happy hacking :-)
 
   -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/
 Happy hacking :-)
 
   -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/