Re: quality .eps screenshots???
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:04:19PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > I desperately try to insert Linux desktop screenshots into my > LyX formatted thesis. > The problem is and was that I don't manage to generate .eps grayscale > (because B/W laserprinter)with enough quality. My fellow students would > laugh on me when comparing their sharp pictures inserted in Word :-(( > So I tried both Gimp and Xv as advised in your ML archive under the thread > reference "Using GIF Images?" (especially by contributor C. Sawtell). > Unfortunately, the results seen and printed via GV5.50 are still awful. > What's the procedure to prove that LyX "can do it"? If bitmap graphics is needed, perhaps the best way is to use pdflatex which can directly include JPEG/PNG/TIFF images. Unfortunately, the most recent stable version (1.1.5fix1) doesn't have PDF support, so you will have to export the file as latex and run pdflatex yourself (the CVS version does have PDF support).
Re: quality .eps screenshots???
>>Date: 21 Sep 2000 22:04:19 - >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: quality .eps screenshots??? >> >>Hello >>I desperately try to insert Linux desktop screenshots into my >>LyX formatted thesis. >>The problem is and was that I don't manage to generate .eps grayscale >>(because B/W laserprinter)with enough quality. My fellow students would >>laugh on me when comparing their sharp pictures inserted in Word :-(( >>So I tried both Gimp and Xv as advised in your ML archive under the thread >>reference "Using GIF Images?" (especially by contributor C. Sawtell). >>Unfortunately, the results seen and printed via GV5.50 are still awful. >>What's the procedure to prove that LyX "can do it"? >> Here I get good results using xwd, ImageMagick convert to eps in grayscale and avoiding resizing in the \includegraphics (i.e. convert to the required size using -geometry). Example: xwd > foo.xwd (click in the window to create the snapshot) convert -colorspace GRAY -dither -geometry 50% foo.xwd foo.eps Converting to png and using pdflatex should give good (better?) results. -- Jean-Pierre
Re: quality .eps screenshots???
> frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello I desperately try to insert Linux desktop screenshots into > my LyX formatted thesis. The problem is and was that I don't > manage to generate .eps grayscale (because B/W laserprinter)with > enough quality. What technique are you using? I just used the following steps, with excellent output on a 600 DPI Postscript printer: 1. Use XV to grab a window (an 800x800 Xemacs window); 2. Save the grabbed file as full-colour (24-bit) TIFF (you could save it as a greyscale TIFF if you didn't need to make a PDF file or print it to a colour printer); 3. Convert to EPS with "tiff2ps -e file.tiff > file.eps"; 4. Insert it in LyX as an EPS figure. How are you generating the EPS file? You're not attempting to scale the image outside of LyX, are you? -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/
quality .eps screenshots???
Hello I desperately try to insert Linux desktop screenshots into my LyX formatted thesis. The problem is and was that I don't manage to generate .eps grayscale (because B/W laserprinter)with enough quality. My fellow students would laugh on me when comparing their sharp pictures inserted in Word :-(( So I tried both Gimp and Xv as advised in your ML archive under the thread reference "Using GIF Images?" (especially by contributor C. Sawtell). Unfortunately, the results seen and printed via GV5.50 are still awful. What's the procedure to prove that LyX "can do it"? Thanks Fred (LyX 1.1.5, Linux 2.2.15) -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://NamePlanet.com/?su
