On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:51:11 +0100, Alan Braslau <alan.bras...@cea.fr> wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:04:27 +0100
"j. van den hoff" <veedeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:43:29 +0100, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:

>  * if `scale=' is not the way to achieve invariant and unambiguous
> size of images embedded in the document, what is? `width=XXX cm'?
> i.e.: how is this supposed to be done correctly(TM)?
>  just use width=4cm and so

understood, will do (thanks to henning, too, for answering). in any
case, I have settled for `width={fraction}\textwidth' as the most
convenient solution. but if you don't mind explaining: _why_ is
`scale' causing me a problem in the first place? what is the actual
intended (and good) use of this parameter?

scale= is EXTREMELY useful when combining external figures and one
wants to retain uniform linewidths, text pointsizes, etc. Using width=
(or height=) in such a case will lead to very poor results, indeed.

OK, thanks. will try to remember that. -- but in this case (important/useful parameter...) I am still wondering, why the same value (say: scale=750) leads to totally different figure size in the pdf output for two different machines/OSes?

I understand that scale=1000 means "original size" but in want sense? it seems to dependent on the machine/engine's idea of dpi resolution or something like that ...

joerg


Alan

P.S. Personally, I find that scale=1000 meaning 1 is an unfortunate
left-over from the previous century - prehistoric days. In the
chemistry module rewrite, we take abs(scale)>10 in units of 1000, just
to confuse things. (Hans: I would suggest dropping this...).



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