Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:59:07PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>when I compress my EPS figures according to
>>http://www.lyx.org/help/floats/eps.html and insert
>>them in LyX, the size of the global exported
>>postscript file is as big as if I did not compress
>>the EPS figures.
>>I thought that inserting compressed EPS figures would
>>reduce the final document size too ?
>>
>
> No it won't.
>
> If your big EPS figures were created from bitmap images, then you can create
> them again, but this time create Postscript level 2 files
> (e.g. convert foo.gif eps2:foo.eps ), and don't compress the EPS files.
>
> However, note that the result Postscript file cannot be printed on old
> Postscript printers.
and not all ghosscript versions can show eps2 figures
HErbert
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