On Thursday 21 May 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > 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,
In general, I try to use PDF whenever the graphical material is mainly lines and text. For solid colors it probably works the best too. But for gradational shading I usually use PNG. The problem with PNG is if you make the resolution high enough to retain really sharp edges, the file size becomes very large. I also use JPEG for photographs: PNG works fine too, but the files are larger. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
