On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James <koopsm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> >>> On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript >>> reducing the size of the raster images and those with raster components. The >>> next level of usability (beyond using a converter on a whole document) would >>> be to have an option within the figure float setting or graphic dialogue box >>> that gave a second option for "draft mode" (i.e. an option that still >>> included the image, but at a draft appropriate resolution if a reduction is >>> possible for that graphic). >>> Of course, there would then be a need for a method to un-select all graphics >>> with the option selected in bulk for final compilation. >>> >> IMO this would be messy (and ineffective). Nicer would be a >> dedicated Document > Settings option that would allow to choose a >> specific downscaling level, and that LyX would honor at compile time. >> If this is feasible, this would avoid adding new converters in File > >> Export. But this solution is more involved than simply adding an >> additional converter... > > This would not be messy, if one would also have a document wide option > with the possibility to set all image specific values. > > This would be similar to e.g. PowerPoint (at least it was when I last > used it about 10 years ago...). You can set a "reduced size" for each > image, or for the whole document. > > Advantage: you can have graphs in full resolution, but images reduced. > > Main difference: the reduction in size would be done by the image > copiers. > > Now let's think further: >
> In my case, I have quite often huge vector graphs (pdf), as they contain > hundreds of thousands of points. Now these are easy to generate in R and > also quite easy to view for themselves, but they can cause problems with > displaying (and size I guess if there are to many points). In these > cases, an option to convert the vector graph to an image of a given > resolution (the one used for the target resolution above?) would make > life much easier. > I think this sounds interesting. Maybe worth opening a feature request on Bugzilla. Liviu > Cheers, > > Rainer > > >> >> Liviu > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982 -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
