>>X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: "Curtis Osterhoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc. >>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:31:00 +0000 >> >>Hi, all, >> >> I'm currently producing documents using LyX, in which graphics are often >>XFig figures. I like the fact that LaTeX fonts can be embedded in such >>figures, and look great when the final document is produced*. >> However, if such a figure is relatively complicated (for example, a large >>color plot of experimental data in which there's lots of small detail), the >>final .pdf (using pdflatex) from LyX usually has quite a bit of detail lost >>in the figure (small details seem "averaged out" and therefore blurry), >>whereas a .dvi or postscript document usually seems to retain most of the >>detail of the original graphic. Is this because of a convoluted conversion >>path, where at some (maybe more than one) step, some graphics detail is >>lost? Is there a way to possibly fix this?
Did you try to create the pdf directly fron xfig ? Is there a difference with the fig->eps->pdf path with your graphics ? Regards -- Jean-Pierre
