On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. sorry for this off-topic question which is very XFig related... > since LyX supports .fig I would like to stick to XFig and hence need > a solution to this problem: in XFig, when I draw a line that is not > horizontal or vertical, i.e. a line at an angle, then the output > that appears on the screen has the line's "surface" as a sawtooth > more or less.. i.e. the line doesn't appear solid/clear/smooth on > the screen.. if I do the same in say karbon (KDE's equivalent of > Adobe Illustrator) or Illustrator, it's clean and no sawtooths are > visible.. any idea if I can get the same from XFig? I've looked at > all the options for the polyline in XFig but haven't been able to > achieve this...
I usually export the finished figure to eps in xfig when using the figure in LyX. This gives you a clean vector based file. However, you can get smoother line in LyX when using .fig files by adding -S 4 in LyX preferences -> converters: xfig->xpm. like this: fig2dev -L xpm -S 4 $$i $$o Ingar
