On 5/18/11 4:19 PM, "Nick Dokos" <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
><ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > >> I'm wondering about "best practices" (though I hate that term) for >> managing the export to both HTML & PDF. For the HTML I generate the >> graphics files as PNG, but for PDF the PNG format doesn't embed very >> well, > >What is the problem with PNG exactly? I've never had any problems >incorporating them into a PDF. It is a bitmap format, so it will not >suffer extreme changes in magnification without some ugliness of course, >but other than that I don't know of any problems. That is exactly the problem =). It does include itself into the document, it just doesn't look very nice. Since these are data-based graphics coming from R, their lines should be nice & crisp, but they end up looking pretty fuzzy. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
