Hi Vivian, I recently did the same sort of thing (also using TexWorks) and found the same results.
It seems to me that the vector based formats (line art) work fine, but bitmap based formats (images) go wonky / degrade. Cheers, MarkL On 27 March 2013 04:27, Vivian <per...@husky.neu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm encountering the following problem producing pdfs with Lyx. I've > upgraded > to Lyx 2.051, and I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 (from previous Lyx installation) in > Windows 7 environment. I have eps figures that I generated from emf files > (figures saved from Powerpoint slides) using the Lyx utility metafile2eps. > The > eps figures themselves look very nice in Ghostview, and ps output directly > from Lyx looks good, too. However, when I generate a pdf, most of the > figures > (strangely, not all!) suffer visible degradation in quality. I've noticed > that > in figures with a combination of line art and photographs/images, it's the > latter that fare worse. Does anyone have any idea what may be going on? > I've > tried bypassing Lyx and using TeXworks (with package epstopdf, and > pdfLatex+MakeIndex+BibTex), but this gives me the same (degraded) pdf > output. > Conversion of the ps file generated by Lyx (which looks good) using > Ghostview > also results in the same pdf. > >
