[Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread marco restelli
Hi all, I'd like to use paraview images in a latex document. So far, I can see two options: 1) Save Screeshot as pdf - works, but I would prefer eps files 2) Save Screeshot in whatever format and convert it to eps - this works but the quality of the eps is very bad. Does anybody have any

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread Andy Bauer
Another option is to use pdflatex which can take in png files that ParaView can save a screenshot as. Not sure if this is what you're looking for though. Andy On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:11 PM, marco restelli mreste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like to use paraview images in a latex

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
When you save an image of a 3D image, it is a raster image regardless whether you save it in pdf. As such, you are much better off saving as a png file where the resolution is explicit. You can then convert it (with, for example, ImageMagick) to any format that you chose and keep that

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
I used the approach Andy suggested very successfully (it can also take a PDF as an image). I am guessing you are taking screenshots of the 3D scene and including them in papers/reports. Marcus On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Andy Bauer andy.ba...@kitware.com wrote: Another option is to use

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread burlen
Any specific reason you prefer eps files? PV is only going to give you raster images, so eps isn't an advantage as far as I can tell. I think you can get quite good results with png's. Save your PV image in .png format (File-Save Screen Shot), in as high resolution as you can. In other words,

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, marco restelli mreste...@gmail.com wrote: Andy, Kenneth, Hanwell, burlen, thank you for the quick and detailed replies! On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:40 PM, burlen burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: Any specific reason you prefer eps files? PV is only going to

Re: [Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

2010-05-28 Thread David Doria
You might consider  LaTeX beamer, I have had great results with it and it uses pdflatex. http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home I second Beamer. My colleagues and I have made many presentations with it. I believe it is the accepted replacement of Prosper. David