On 6/14/2010 3:01 PM, 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?
I get pretty decent results exporting to PDF from LyX on my Windows box
(which may have something to do with default settings for the
Ghostscript delegate in ImageMagick?), but it's not perfect. The minus
signs on the sigma nodes overlap the arrow heads, the diagonal lines in
the switch/gate symbols are fainter than the other lines, and a couple
of lines may be darker than the rest (I think because the software that
created the diagram may have drawn two paths that should overlap as
separate lines that are just slightly apart?).
FWIW, I think you might get better results by using something that
produces LaTeX or pstricks output to draw the diagram. I happen to like
tikz, but others will vote for Inkscape, Dia, ...
/Paul
