Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Thomas Steffen
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Nils Becker nils.bec...@ens-lyon.fr wrote: convert -compress LZW $$i eps2:$$o This got the file size down to about 2M in the above example. Even leaving out the explicit -compress option and keeping only the eps2 (i.e. Level 2) format specification gives

Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Thomas Steffen steffen.listaccount+...@gmail.com writes: eps2 may be a good option, but using -compress can make the resulting postscript file very slow to decode, especially on older devices. I have played with these options before, and there is just no easy solution for it. The best option

Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Thomas Steffen
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Nils Becker nils.bec...@ens-lyon.fr wrote: convert -compress LZW $$i eps2:$$o This got the file size down to about 2M in the above example. Even leaving out the explicit -compress option and keeping only the eps2 (i.e. Level 2) format specification gives

Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Thomas Steffen steffen.listaccount+...@gmail.com writes: eps2 may be a good option, but using -compress can make the resulting postscript file very slow to decode, especially on older devices. I have played with these options before, and there is just no easy solution for it. The best option

Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Thomas Steffen
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Nils Becker wrote: > convert -compress LZW $$i eps2:$$o > > This got the file size down to about 2M in the above example. > Even leaving out the explicit -compress option and keeping only the eps2 > (i.e. Level 2) format specification

Re: PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Thomas Steffen" writes: > eps2 may be a good option, but using -compress can make the resulting > postscript file very slow to decode, especially on older devices. I > have played with these options before, and there is just no easy > solution for it. > > The

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as LaTeX (plain), .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as LaTeX (plain), .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the

PNG to EPS without file size explosion

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Becker
Hi, when exporting a LyX file with embedded .png graphics as "LaTeX (plain)", .eps files are generated automatically from the .png's. That's good! However the resulting .eps file sizes can get huge. (from 700K to 110M in one case). The reason is that LyX uses convert with no options to do the