>>Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:12:50 +0100
>>From: Nemeth Miklos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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>>Subject: Re: LyX: Using GIF Images?
>>
>>Do not try to cheat ourselves! LyX's support and also LaTeX's to GIF, JPEG,
>>PNG, etc is very poor.
I understand your particular concern, but I think that mixing
in the same line GIF, JPEG and PNG is a bit misleading.
What is important is to know wether the original image
is vectorized or bitmapped. If the original image is vectorized,
AND if it is possible to create a vectorized eps format, there
will not be any problem with LyX/LaTeX and with transcoding
towards network-oriented compressed formats like GIF and PNG.
IF the original image is bitmapped, bitmapped eps becomes less powerful
than other formats in the case of vector-like pictures because resizing
is very poor. It works correctly with real pictures from my experience.
So in the case of bitmapped versions of vectorized images
(i.e., when there exists no way to keep with a vectorized version)
I think that no resizing should take place after conversion towrds PS.
Moreover, and unless I have a poor installation of the package, it seems that
ImageMagick knows only about bitmapped versions of eps (e.g. conversion
betweeen ps/eps formats using convert looses the vectorized property)
so I stich to GS utilities for these.
I have no experience with pdflatex hoevewer, waht are the odds and ends
from your experience ? I currenly use ps2pdf to get the pdf version.
This is successful with portrait layout, but I still don't understand how
to get landscape orientation on the screen on Sun/Solaris.
That's boring because I would like to convince people that
Lyx/LaTeX allows to generate a sequence of viewgraphs which can be
presented full screen, and I tried to use pdf reader to impment that
functionality.
Regards
--
Jean-Pierre
