On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:11:25 +1100 Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan L Tyree wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm doing a small book that contains lots of black and white > > drawings. The final product must be a pdf file, probably produced > > with LaTeX. > > > > The question is, what format should use I save the scanned grayscale > > drawings to get the best output? > > It depends on whether you will be using latex or pdftex for the > processor. If you are using pdflatex you could produce the drawings > in pdf directly or use jpg or png or tiff. If you are using latex > with a out-of-the-box setup you'll need to use eps image files. They > can be stored compressed and uncompressed by latex on the fly. Thanks for the comments, Mike. I started using Lyx because I was hoping that non-computniks would find it easy to enter some of the text. They did, but in the end it seems to be up to me. Therefore, I'm moving to emacs and the standard tetex installation. Selecting the PDF Mode option generates pdf through (I think) pdftex, but the system choked on jpeg files. Which led to the original question. It does process the png files automatically, and they look better than the jpeg files that were produced from Lyx. <SNIP> > the image. Google for 'jpeg artefacts' Given the above though I have > use jpeg for line drawings and have not had any problems. I didn't see any problems with the jpeg files that were processed by Lyx, but it seems that Lyx converts most (but not all) to eps. > > If you are using pdflib consider doing the images in pdf. PDF will be > much smaller than tiff images. > > Mike > -- > Michael Lake > Computational Research Support Unit > Science Faculty, UTS > Ph: 9514 2238 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
