On Friday 08 February 2002 1:41 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > > My question: if the output file needs to be converted (to eps, png etc), then > > this conversion is always going to result in bitmap (rather than vector) > > data. So, does it matter if we start from the original file, or from the > > pixmap stored in memory (if it has been created). Note, we store two copies > > of the image. The original one without any scaling, cropping, rotation and > > the one modified for the LyX screen. So, I'm suggesting simply exporting the > > original, unmodified XPM file to EPS, etc and then letting includegraphics do > > the scaling etc for the final output. > > > maybe that someone has a jpeg->eps with program A. If an original > bitmap-copy exists we can not use program B, because the user wants > A. And when the user has a vector format, he also want to convert > it into eps without getting bitmaps. Long speech short sense: > I think we should always use the converting from the > original file ...
Fair enough. Angus
