John Sheahan wrote: > this time send to the ug.. > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:38:40PM +0200, Vladimir Milovanovic wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I am using some graphs that I have made in Excel. The way I get them >>into LyX is to, while still in Windows, paste them into Photoshop, and >>then save them as an image (I have tried eps, bmp, jpg). Then, in Linux, >>I insert them in a figure float as normal. in LyX the image looks great. >>However, when I view it in DVI or PDF, the image gets very blurry, and > > > > I had the same problem. what ended up working best for me, > was to use gnumeric instead of excel (means it _all_ works under linux) > export the data to be graphed to a csv file > read that data into grace (graphing app) > adjust the graph to look nice (much easier in grace than excel/gnumeric) > export the graph as eps > load eps into lyx in the normal way. > > john > >
I do it the same way, since then I don't have to boot again to change something in the graphs. But grace is not that easy to use. I had some problems in the beginning, because gnumeric save numbers in the german way (, instead of .) and grace don't understand that. But thats another problem...
