On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 09:21:37AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Note that jpg, bmp and png are in less desirable bit mapped formats whereas > eps is in a more desirable vector format (magnification and shrinking does > not involve loss of info) and so would be preferable from a quality > viewpoint.
In addition to seconding the above statement I'd like to add that in cases where you are forced to use a bitmap format png tends to produce much better results than jpg where line drawings (e.g. most plots) are concerned. JPG format on the other hand is great for anyting which can be discirbed as photography-like. jpg images of plots tend to suffer from bad artifacts... cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html