On Thu, 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I think they work anywhere.
I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really work much, much better as LyX doc graphics?
Steve, Perhaps not your imagination but your perception. I use .eps, .png, .jpg (rarely), and .pdf with equal success. When I use .eps format graphics I view using dvips and compile using LaTeX->dvips->ps2pdf. When I use .png and .pdf format graphics I view (and compile) using pdflatex. Regardless of graphic format I can tweak the bounding box size and scale both display and output size. The graphic format I use depends on whether the image is vector or raster. However, I have used GIS (raster) images as .eps or .png files and had no problems with LyX converting them to .pdf during compilation. Almost all my pdf documents are created with LyX; the occasional one with OO.o. Fonts are embedded by default and no one's complained about not being able to view them regardless of the platform they use. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
