Sven Schreiber wrote: > Good point about the bitmap thing, I'm definitely a vector fan. After > looking a little at the devel mailing archives to get an idea of the > discussion: I may be wrong, but could it be that people wrongly equate > pdf=vector?
No, at least I can't remember people doing that. > AFAIK, pdf can hold both types of graphics, and e.g. Yes. > imagemagick can produce pdfs, but *only* with bitmaps (last time I > checked, or am I wrong here?). To my knowledge the only vector ways to > go eps->pdf is ghostscript or acrobat. Again, please correct me if I'm > wrong. And this is the problem: Since converters are user definable, we don't know wether a given eps -> pdf conversion retains vector data or not. > But maybe for output the bitmaps are not so bad as they seem at first. True, but the optimal solution that should be implemented some day would be to retain vector data. >> I guess the best solution would be to associate a cost to each >> converter that tells how lossy conversion is. >> > > Without any offense: As a user I would like to have control and not rely > on some hidden fuzzy-logic algorithm. Why not an option in This is no fuzzy logic, and in order to be usable it would need to be documented. You have complete control over your converters, of course you would also be able to adjust the cost factor. I think it is indeed a useful approach. > preferences-look&feel-graphics? This preference pane is almost empty > now. What about something like a tick box "Warn when converting vector > graphics to bitmap", and secondly an editable field "approx. target > resolution for bitmapped images if necessary". The problem is: We don't know always wether a given file contains vector or bitmap data. So we can't issue that warning. > A completely different path of course would be to count on ghostscript, > but maybe lyx shouldn't depend on that. Anyway, just my suggestions, no > urgent need on my side (remember I just found out about the > auto-conversion for pdflatex yesterday!) LyX depends heavily on ghostscript (at least in the default configuration). But again, this is configurable. Georg
