On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:52:33PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > The only weakness I see (after several hours trying lyx -I'm using
> > 1.1.6fix2) is about images. You can import .eps files, but a 20K PNG
> > file turns into a 1MB eps file.
>
> Yep.
Nope. See below.
> Regarding conversions to EPS...
>
> 1) I found that using the ImageMagic convert program to produce EPS
> files from PNG files does, indeed, make very big files.
> However, if I use Save As.. EPS from Gimp, I get smaller files.
> They are still noticeably bigger than the PNG files, though.
ImageMagic can create small files (only 30% bigger than the original) if you
convert into a level 2 Postscript file (the default is a level 1 file):
convert file.png eps2:file.eps
