Am Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:08:43 schrieben Sie: Thanks Uwe,
but do you know why the 575kb sized jpg becomes after convertion to .png 2.8MB? (i used convert) Wolfgang > Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: > > slightly off topic: > > I have an eps formatted figure which is too large (45MB) which should go > > in a lyx document. > > Then you have a bitmap image that has only a header to be an EPS. Therefore > I fear that a conversion to PDF wouldn't help. > > > I tried to reduce the size of the figure by exporting it in gimp to a > > .jpg format. However, this shrinks it to a few kb. > > Start from this JPEG and use a program of your choice to resize it to e.g. > 1024x768 Pixels. Finally save it as 8bit PNG. > > regards Uwe -- --------------------------------- Wolfgang Engelmann Schlossgartenstrasse 22 D-72070 Tübingen Tel 07071 68325