Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 8:01 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > What would be the format that (a) can be produced by gs, (b) displayed > > "natively" by LyX and (c) is the "fastest"? > > Comparing the available gs devices to this list of formats that can be loaded > natively by LyX, these formats could be used: > jpeg, pnm, tif > I guess that "fastest" is a trial and error discovery.
Forget my last comment: just found out that with the exception of the noncompressed TIF devices, all of the TIF in GhostScript are just Black&White (1 bit per pixel). The noncompressed ones offer no size advantage over the simpler pnm. That leaves pnm as the only feasible candidate out of the box. At least pnm will encode monochromatic images with 8 bits per pixel instead of 24 (and if you don't use antialiasing, pure B&W text will render with 1 bit per pixel, while looking ugly). But if you ask me: better to support PNG natively soon. After all, it is _the_ standard free format for lossless compression of graphical images. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
