Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a
LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and
continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I think
they work anywhere.
I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only
with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal
experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of
those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really
work much, much better as LyX doc graphics?
Any supported vector format ought to look fine, or there is a bug. There
should be no difference between pdf and eps images. PDF might compile
faster with pdflatex though.
The problem with bitmaps is that screens have different resolutions, and
even a cheap printer has much much higher resolution than an expensive
big screen. And good printers have much better resolution than that.
So, a jpeg that looks good printed on a photosetter or something will
have to be one huge file, maybe a full-resolution image from a good
camera. But such a big file will render slowly on a computer, and it
will not be necessary to look good on a screen.
Helge Hafting
