Thanks for your quick reply. I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of the document might be useful. What lossy format, would you recommend for the latter?
Cheers, Sam ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> > To: Sam Lewis <stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk> > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 20:22 > Subject: Re: Most suitable image format > > It actually depends on how you intend to use the resulting document. If you > will > be printing the resulting PDF on a professional press, then you will want to > use > a lossless format (most likely tiff), or a high quality jpeg. > > If the PDF is to be put on your website, you will probably want to use a > lossy > format of some type. It will give a better quality to file size ratio, even > though it will introduce some artifacts into the image. But unless your > readers > will be viewing the image at very high resolution (onscreen), they are not > going > to notice. > > Hope that's of some help. > > Cheers, > > Rob >
