Hi Nick,
As I remember, when you convert to .eps you get a chance to declare a
preview, which is a sort of thumbnail of the image in a different format.
Perhaps you could use that to accomplish what you need. Try saving a .eps in
Gimp, and notice the preview checkbox and preview size field.
Steve
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On Thursday 06 September 2001 05:28, Nick Burgan wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos
> as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the
> Convert package that is part of image magick
> ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps
>
> When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and
> they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the
> image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of
> image magick again).
>
> (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with
> photograpghs)
>
> I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way
> to make them look better 'on screen'.
>
> I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ?
>
> Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for
> example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display
> seems to render the images much faster also.
>
> Maybe this is a development issue ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Nick
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