Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: >> Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James <[email protected]> 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.
Done - http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9405 Thanks, Rainer > > > Liviu > > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Rainer >> >> >>> >>> Liviu >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >> PGP: 0x0F52F982 -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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