Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-25 Thread William Adams
Jean-Pierre said: (re: PhotoShop 6+ image interpolation) That's a workaround, but what happens if you resize the eps in the LyX doc ? If you need to interpolate again at further size changes, pdflatex is a better solution IMHO (and tex2pdf works out hyperref args for you). If you need to ask the

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-25 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:29:31 -0400 >>From: William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Image quality in exported documents >> >>Jean-Pierre said: >>>I've read the thread on this mail, and I confirm that

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-25 Thread William Adams
Jean-Pierre said: >I've read the thread on this mail, and I confirm that >bitmap eps gives poor results on diagrams and screen saves, >unless the original size is retained. A way to improve the appearance of bitmap .eps files is to load them into PhotoShop 6 or later and save them out with ``Imag

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-25 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:29:30 +1000 >>From: Alistair Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Image quality in exported documents >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Hello, >> >>I've been using Lyx for about 12 months, and think it's an

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-20 Thread Rod Pinna
If you use convert, try convert file.png eps2:file.eps This will produce a level 2 eps file, which allows for a compressed bitmapped to be included, rather than the default type 1 eps, which stores an uncompressed bitmap. I don't know if it will make much difference with a png file, but it does

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-20 Thread Alistair Atkinson
Thanks very much to everyone for the help and suggestions. It turns out that Katrin was correct, and the problem was with the image resolution rather than the methods used to export the document. Thanks again, Alistair On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:47 pm, Katrin Pietzsch wrote: > Hi Alistair, > thou

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-20 Thread Katrin Pietzsch
Hi Alistair, though you might meanwhile have solved the problem, here's another suggestion how to improve the image quality. First of all I found that your images delivered in the sample file have a resolution of 70-something dpi, which as far as I know is a little low for printing. When you ex

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Alistair Atkinson wrote: Hello, I've been using Lyx for about 12 months, and think it's an absolutely brilliant piece of software. I am currently using version 1.3.1. However, I have been having major difficulties with the quality of images in a document when exporting to DVI, PS or PDF. Imag

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
> Perhaps. I've taken the PNG and used GIMP to convert it to an EPS. The EPS What software generated the PNG image? Did it have an option for any other format like JPEG or PS? Doesn't look like GIMP does a good job with PNG files.. with the version I have, it didn't even give me the option to exp

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-19 Thread Jeannette Meyer
> > can't get my images and charts etc to look acceptable I may have no > > choice. > > It's definitely possible to get the images to look as they should.. might > need to play around a little in the beginning and figure out a mechanism > that works for different image formats.. I did play around

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-19 Thread Alistair Atkinson
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:16 pm, Remzi Seker wrote: > Are you talking about the preview (on screen view) or the printout too? Both. > Can you send a sample (small) document? Sure, I've attached an example Lyx file and associated images. > What kind of images are we really talking about? Mainl

Re: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
Alistair Atkinson wrote: > in a document when exporting to DVI, PS or PDF. Images appear kind of > "blocky", almost like they are at a low resolution. I think I've seen this before.. the problem is usually when the native format in which the image was created was not eps for a PS or jpg for a PDF

RE: Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-19 Thread Remzi Seker
nyway). -Original Message- From: Alistair Atkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Image quality in exported documents Hello, I've been using Lyx for about 12 months, and think it's an absolutely brilliant piece of

Image quality in exported documents

2003-08-19 Thread Alistair Atkinson
Hello, I've been using Lyx for about 12 months, and think it's an absolutely brilliant piece of software. I am currently using version 1.3.1. However, I have been having major difficulties with the quality of images in a document when exporting to DVI, PS or PDF. Images appear kind of "blocky