On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:49:30AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> 
> > I have now also hacked the tex2pdf script to convert the eps files to
> > PNG rather than PDF, using the convert program which is part of
> > ImageMagick.
> 
> That might be good choice for you, but generally it is not. Vector image
> graphics should _not_ be converted to bitmapped images, it will degrade
> the quality much and possibly make much bigger and slower files.

I guess it depends what the original picture was -- in my case, it was a
bitmapped image originally, converted to EPS, so I wasn't losing
anything.  I didn't think of people who might be using vector-graphics
EPS files...

Kathryn Andersen
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