On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, John Pye wrote: > I suspect that your problem will be coming from the fact that > screenshots are ~75-90 dpi, but that you are then printing them on a > page at something like 300 dpi. Normally this means that the images are > scaled up so that they have the right number of pixels on the page. This > means adding new pixels, which are added by interpolation, meaning that > your nice crisp screenshot images are ending up blurred. > > The solution to this as far as I can tell is to resize the images up to > something close to 300 dpi using some tool *outside* LyX. In GIMP this > can be done using the Image->Scaling then selecting Interpolation->'None > (Fastest)' after entering a new pixel size.
Thank you. Thank you! I couldn't figure out how to get the resolution to change without also changing my width and height. Thanks for telling me "None" as that appears to work for me. Also I use the GIMP to save it in the exact size I want so I don't have to scale using \includegraphics[scale=a.bc]. I am saving as PNG images. My final book PDF is probably going to grow from less than 10MB to over 100MB due to the new PNGs, but I think my printer will accept that. I read that pdflatex accepts JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PDF. I assume that means that a JPEG, TIFF, and PNG are the supported raster image formats for embedding in a PDF. Does anyone know if using a tiff would be better than a zero compressed png? Jeremy C. Reed
