John Doty wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Joerg wrote: > >> Personally I think this super-duper-quality requirement for scientific >> papers is overblown. I use 300dpi PNG format almost exclusively in my >> business docs and some of those go straight to the board room. Even >> with >> 20:20 vision you can't see any difference to professionally printed >> stuff. > > Different culture. Dense text, small print, and tiny graphics are > normal in scientific publication. I just grabbed a conference > proceedings volume at random from the shelf, and in seconds found a > page (14 by 22 cm) with nine separate plots of data from 19 > independent data cuts. I'd need a magnifier to see all the details. > Pretty common. High page charges and/or page limits dictate form, and > historically reference libraries didn't want to keep lots of low > resolution paper (but now they're getting rid of paper, and > physically disappearing). >
Yep. I did a few and they always told me "You've got x pages. If you go over that you'll have to pay and it'll be lots of money". BTW, I did all of them without LaTex or any other high-faluting power software ... > But in business, tiny graphics and fine print signal "you aren't > expected to read this" ;-) > In politics or committee meetings that would be "You can try to read this but better not ask any questions about it" :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user