Hmm, interesting idea. I would have to post-process the generated images to add the text.. easily down with a GUI tool, would require some mucking around on the command line.
Yeah, that was one of the main concerns I had when I was developing this, it would be lovely if the app itself could automatically source and add them in automatically. It's really a hassle to manually add teh images, but I'm not really familiar with how to convert them into the appropriate format in Node.js in a quick and easy way. Will look into this in a future update!
Yeah, once upon a time I had an idea of having a drop-down menu which would have four or five sample images you could select from to instantly load them into place. I can't remember why I didn't end up implementing that. But unless a new client drops out of the sky in the next few days, I'm going to have some spare time later this month, so perhaps I'll take your comment as motivation to hack that into place. :)
There are ways, but they aren't particularly obvious and are more work than they should. With some elbow grease involving multi-step builds, snapshots and diffing the resulting images to copy only the required files into your final image, you can definitely build them, at least.
It isn't made particular easy for you. Honestly it's actually kind of a pain, wherein lies the problem. Doesn't help that some languages' official images are kind of bloated themselves, either.
The images could be for things like performance graphs, interactive menu choices, photos of GPIO wiring etc. Not a huge loss to not have them, but given it's dead easy to add to a Word document, why not?
Yes, I did this for self-contained reports in maybe 2014. All images referenced (containing diagrams) were embedded as data URIs. Restrictions are AFAIK more picky now, though so YMMV in 2021.
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