From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:00:20 -0400
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
As I understood you, you insert the graphics as EPS in LyX and produce
then the PDF via pdflatex. I also use pdflatex for the PDF-output but
insert all graphics as PDF. This has the advantage that the compilation
process is much faster because JPG, PNG, and PDF-graphics can directly be
embedded into a PDF so that no conversion step is needed. This increases
the compilation time and avoids your problem.
A very good EPS -> PDF converter is Ghostscript (and of course Acrobat).
And if Curtis is using Mathematica to generate the graphs, he can export
them directly to PDF from Mathematica.
/Paul
Paul,
A good point. Unfortunately, the PDF export from Mathematica is
problematical, at least with this particular plot (I've never run into
troubles before, but I've never worked with such large graphics files,
either); a .pdf IS generated, of the correct name and filesize, but is
absolutely blank when viewed in Acrobat or Ghostview. If I remove all text
from the generated file before exporting it, a PART of the file renders, but
its aspect ratio is off. (These two points are problems for me and Wolfram
to figure out, so just incidental to this list)
Finally, if I'm not mistaken, exporting the graphic directly as PDF
means that all the advantage of being able to use LaTeX fonts when LyX does
its rendering is lost; the fonts and their size will be fixed in the .pdf
file, and may not match the default fonts in LyX without some careful
planning. If I'm wrong on this point, please let me know!
Thanks to all for their help and replies. This list and its expert
readers have always been a great help to me.
Curtis O.
