picturesize in PDF-file exported from Lyx

[Ralf Weyer]

Hello,

I've tried Lyx for the first time, and I have to mention, that I don't have any 
knowledge of LaTeX.

I've created a documentation that included a lot of screenshots (PNG-files), 
and exported it as PDF-file.

Everything worked so far, except the pictures. In Latex they are shonw in the 
correct size, but in the exported PDF-file the are much too big and very low 
quality. This does also happen when I convert them to EPS before importing them 
into Lyx.

Setting the size in percent does have no effect at all, all I can do is set 
then to an exact size, for example a width of 17cm. Since I've imported about 
60 pictures in this documentation this ist not a real choise because I then 
would have to set every single picture to a size I don't know exactly, and 
would have to do this by try and error.

At last I should mention that I'm runing Kubuntu Linux 6.10 with Lyx-Qt 1.4.2 
installed from the official Kubuntu-repository.

Any suggestion what to do about this would be welcome.

Regards,

Ralf
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Re: picturesize in PDF-file exported from Lyx

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Ralf Weyer wrote:
> Setting the size in percent does have no effect at all, all I can do is set
> then to an exact size, for example a width of 17cm. Since I've imported
> about 60 pictures in this documentation this ist not a real choise because
> I then would have to set every single picture to a size I don't know
> exactly, and would have to do this by try and error.

Where did you set that scale rate? In the graphics dialog, there's a "scale" 
widget that only scales the size in the LyX window. The output scale ratio 
has to be set in the Output->Width widget, with the combo set to "Scale%" 
(yes, this is bad design, and it'll change in 1.5).

Jürgen