Sam, just use PNG for all purposes. It's compressed but lossless, and it's supported by LyX as well as all modern web browsers. Jens On May 31, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sam Lewis wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply. > > I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of > the document might be useful. What lossy format, would you recommend for the > latter? > > Cheers, Sam > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> >> To: Sam Lewis <stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk> >> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 20:22 >> Subject: Re: Most suitable image format >> >> It actually depends on how you intend to use the resulting document. If you >> will >> be printing the resulting PDF on a professional press, then you will want to >> use >> a lossless format (most likely tiff), or a high quality jpeg. >> >> If the PDF is to be put on your website, you will probably want to use a >> lossy >> format of some type. It will give a better quality to file size ratio, even >> though it will introduce some artifacts into the image. But unless your >> readers >> will be viewing the image at very high resolution (onscreen), they are not >> going >> to notice. >> >> Hope that's of some help. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rob >> >
