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
>>
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