Olivier Ripoll wrote:
Tim Wescott wrote:
This drawing looks fine when I look at it using Eye of Gnome document
viewer. But when I incorporate it into my LyX document as a figure,
the line weights look off. When I make a pdf from that document, some
of the lines are so light they're almost invisible, and some are
normal weight. It's definitely not up to snuff for sending to a
customer!
Am I screwed? Do I just need to export the thing as a bitmap? or is
there some setting I can try to make it render better?
If you cannot fix it from your drawing software, here is a quick and
dirty fix:
There are height occurrences of the keyword "lw" in your file. Half are
of the type "0 lw", the others are of type "1 lw". "lw" is defined in
this eps dictionary as a shortcut for "setlinewidth" postscript command.
If you change them one at a time "100 lw", you can see the following:
- line 60 is the 3 top boxes + 2 circles,
- line 272 if for the Hall event arrow,
- line 274 is the middle box + the disk index interrupter,
- line 435 is the disk index event arrow,
- line 437 is the "executive" box,
- line 487 is most arrows,
- line 505 are the bottom lines,
- line 507 is the right lines.
If you change those 8 occurrences to something like "20 lw", the result
looks probably better in the final pdf.
Best regards,
Olivier
Hi,
The lines in your document are really hair line: they are almost
invisible when opened in gsview. I've had a similar problem years ago
with my thesis, with all drawing done with one software. The line weight
was "hairline" and this was interpreted depending on the media: when
printed on the local printer, they were nice, but when the printed
version arrived, they were too thin, because professional printing uses
a better resolution. EOG is a bitmap software, so it probably uses a dpi
resolution based on the screen (~90dpi). You should check the eps with a
proper software (inkscape, any ghostcript viewer such as gv/ghostview/ggv).
Solution is to choose a real thickness for the line.
Best regards,
Olivier
