Re: How does eps scaling work?
On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box).
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps-pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken.
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 17:26 schrieb Paul Smith: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. This is not necessarily true. Depending on the imagemagick and ghostscript versions and commandline flags imagemagick can convert vector eps to vector pdf. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 18:31 schrieb Neal Becker: Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). That is then probably an imagemagick problem. It can probably be fixed by using some commandline flags, but I would also suggest that you get a working ghostscript and epstopdf again. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps-pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken. First off, ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to convert EPS files. So the GS installation can't be all that broken. As to the clipping question, I assume that View-PDF (pdflatex) displays the incorrectly clipped image with the correct orientation (landscape). Did you specify that the aspect ratio be preserved? Does selecting (or deselecting) improve things? /Paul
Re: How does eps scaling work?
On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box).
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps-pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken.
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 17:26 schrieb Paul Smith: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. This is not necessarily true. Depending on the imagemagick and ghostscript versions and commandline flags imagemagick can convert vector eps to vector pdf. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 18:31 schrieb Neal Becker: Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). That is then probably an imagemagick problem. It can probably be fixed by using some commandline flags, but I would also suggest that you get a working ghostscript and epstopdf again. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps-pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken. First off, ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to convert EPS files. So the GS installation can't be all that broken. As to the clipping question, I assume that View-PDF (pdflatex) displays the incorrectly clipped image with the correct orientation (landscape). Did you specify that the aspect ratio be preserved? Does selecting (or deselecting) improve things? /Paul
Re: How does eps scaling work?
On 2/18/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps->pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Paul Smith wrote: > On 2/18/07, Neal Becker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have >> nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript >> update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. >> >> I changed the eps->pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, >> but >> they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling >> performed? > > ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap > images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the > quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. > Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of > ImageMagick. > > Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box).
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > >> On 2/18/07, Neal Becker >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have >>> nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript >>> update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. >>> >>> I changed the eps->pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, >>> but >>> they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling >>> performed? >> >> ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap >> images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the >> quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. >> Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of >> ImageMagick. >> >> Paul > > Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at > all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The > xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but > the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the > bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps->pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken.
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 17:26 schrieb Paul Smith: > On 2/18/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap > images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the > quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. This is not necessarily true. Depending on the imagemagick and ghostscript versions and commandline flags imagemagick can convert vector eps to vector pdf. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 18:31 schrieb Neal Becker: > Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at > all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The > xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but > the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the > bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). That is then probably an imagemagick problem. It can probably be fixed by using some commandline flags, but I would also suggest that you get a working ghostscript and epstopdf again. Georg
Re: How does eps scaling work?
Neal Becker wrote: Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps->pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled correctly. Where/how is the scaling performed? ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Therefore, your images are converted to bitmaps and hence the quality of scaling is bad because your images are no longer vectorial. Perhaps, you should downgrade ghostscript, to use it instead of ImageMagick. Paul Actually, it seems not that it's scaled badly, but that it isn't scaled at all. I set the scaling to 100% \text, which is what I always do. The xmgrace graphic is landscape (the default). The lyx preview is fine, but the pdf version has the graphic clipped. I did not select clipping to the bounding box (nor did I set a bounding box). I also found that switching eps->pdf conversion to ps2pdf13, and then using export to latex using ps2pdf, or dvipdfm, the graphic is fine. Only using export with pdflatex is broken. First off, ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to convert EPS files. So the GS installation can't be all that broken. As to the clipping question, I assume that View->PDF (pdflatex) displays the incorrectly clipped image with the correct orientation (landscape). Did you specify that the aspect ratio be preserved? Does selecting (or deselecting) improve things? /Paul
