Am 14.02.25 um 17:53 schrieb Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE IN
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From: Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 12:40 PM
To: Brian Kneller <b.knel...@btinternet.com>; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: A4 - A3 graphics
On 2/11/25 8:40 AM, Brian Kneller wrote:
Hello,
One of the comments I have received on my thesis, prepared using LyX,
is the legibility of some of the A4 diagrams which by neccessity are
detailed. The document has been presented in PDF format with a default
of A4. The request was made for some diagrams to be in A3. I am not
sure how the ergonomics of this would work if these were embeded in an
A4 document. Is there a solution to this ?
There are various ways to do this, but maybe the easiest is just to add
the diagrams manually to the PDF. There are various programs that allow
you to insert pages into existing PDFs; any one of them will do.
For a LaTeX solution, see
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21296/a3-pages-within-a4-doc
Riki
Is the reason for wanting the A3 size for actual physical printing, or just so
the diagram is more legible when you electronically zoom into the diagram?
For printing, Riki's suggestions for putting the same diagram file on a larger
page *might* help, but for electronic zooming in the diagram image has to start
off great.
Consider the diagram/graphics source files as provided to LyX/LaTeX. Are those
source files raster (JPG/BMP/TIF), SVG or postscript (PS/EPS)? Raster files do
not generally get better when stretched in electronic form (zoom), unless they
start off with _lots_ of pixels (think at least 9600x13200 on A4). SVG and
*some* PS/EPS files can be zoomed into _almost_ infinitely, and are generally
much smaller (data wise) for the same quality as a full page Raster would be.
With package hvfloat you can place a picture on _two_ facing a4 pages.
See documenation
Herbert
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