Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 15.02.2015 um 17:21 schrieb Richard Heck: I think "PDF (E-book)" would be misleading. It suggests something more is going on than just a lower resolution. OK. I changed it now to "lower resolution" (since the resolution is not really low (that would be 72dpi according to most info in the w

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-15 Thread Georg Baum
Richard Heck wrote: > I think "PDF (E-book)" would be misleading. It suggests something more > is going on than just a lower resolution. +1 Another disadvantage is that users might think that this format is only usable for ebooks, but this is not true. Georg

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/15/2015 10:52 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Georg Baum: We could also name it "PDF (low resolution)", but this is much longer, and I thought the more accurate description would be better. The overcrowded menu is indeed not nice, so I am fine wth the current status a

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 15.02.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Georg Baum: We could also name it "PDF (low resolution)", but this is much longer, and I thought the more accurate description would be better. The overcrowded menu is indeed not nice, so I am fine wth the current status as well. Richard, I guess this should also b

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-15 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > However, the export menu is now overcrowded in my opinion. The 150 dpi- > converter has a very limited target audience and should therefore not be > by default in the main export menu. I put it there because the cropped pdf was already in the export menu (which is IMHO needed

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/14/2015 09:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 08.02.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Georg Baum: I think the reason why it does not exist already is that nobody asked for such an option yet. Hi Georg, thanks for the implementation. However, the export menu is now overcrowded in my opinion. The 150 dpi-

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.02.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Georg Baum: I think the reason why it does not exist already is that nobody asked for such an option yet. Hi Georg, thanks for the implementation. However, the export menu is now overcrowded in my opinion. The 150 dpi- converter has a very limited target audien

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-12 Thread Rainer M Krug
Liviu Andronic writes: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> Liviu Andronic writes: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James wrote: > On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript reducing the size of the raster images

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Liviu Andronic writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James wrote: >>> >>> On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript >>> reducing the size of the raster images and those with raster components.

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-12 Thread Rainer M Krug
Liviu Andronic writes: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James wrote: >>> >> >> On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript >> reducing the size of the raster images and those with raster components. The >> next level of usability (beyond using a converter on a w

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-11 Thread Georg Baum
James wrote: > As a user and not a developer, it would be very handy to have the > description of how to add a converter to reduce the PDF output size in a > wiki entry. Yesterday I made a recommendation to three people to add the > converters. I pointed them to the lyx-devel list, but none were a

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-11 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Agreed. I would only propose that we provide two additional > converters: one for TeX fonts and other for non-TeX fonts. Since this > would be for draft, non-final documents, it really should not matter > less which exact converter of each type is being used. But some users

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:04 AM, James wrote: >> > > On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript > reducing the size of the raster images and those with raster components. The > next level of usability (beyond using a converter on a whole document) would > be to hav

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-09 Thread James
> > > On a similar note, AFAIK most of the size reduction comes from Ghostscript reducing the size of the raster images and those with raster components. The next level of usability (beyond using a converter on a whole document) would be to have an option within the figure float setting or graphic

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-09 Thread James
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Agreed. I would only propose that we provide two additional > converters: one for TeX fonts and other for non-TeX fonts. Since this > would be for draft, non-final documents, it really should not matter > less which exact converter of eac

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Actually my observation would be different, and IMO this is a somewhat >> oft-requested feature: >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/127499 >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/73209 >

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-09 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Actually my observation would be different, and IMO this is a somewhat > oft-requested feature: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/127499 > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/73209 Sorry, it looks I am suffering from the selective memory d

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/08/2015 06:08 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hi Georg, On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Georg Baum wrote: James wrote: It would be great to see a button or Document menu item that gave an option to view/compile in a reduced size by with ghostscript and setting the -dPDFSETTINGS switch to

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hi Georg, On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Georg Baum wrote: > James wrote: > >> It would be great to see a button or Document menu item that gave an >> option to view/compile in a reduced size by with ghostscript and setting >> the -dPDFSETTINGS >> switch to one of the following >> /screen (72d

Re: View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-08 Thread Georg Baum
James wrote: > It would be great to see a button or Document menu item that gave an > option to view/compile in a reduced size by with ghostscript and setting > the -dPDFSETTINGS > switch to one of the following > /screen (72dpi), /ebook (150dpi), /printer (300dpi), /prepress (300dpi), > /default

View/compile reduced size PDF within LyX

2015-02-07 Thread James
Is there any reason that an option within LyX to view or compile a reduced size PDF? For example, writing a graphic heavy document such as a thesis, which includes large numbers of HQ photos, bitmaps, vector graphics that have embedded raster images, can result in very large PDF files. The PDF is