On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:44:47 AM UTC-4, LRN wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:15:00 PM UTC+4, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:15:23 AM UTC-4, LRN wrote: >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> I've attached a sample tex file. >>> >>> >> You are totally cutting-edge! But remember, even with imagemagick, "This >> option is not intended to produce good graphics, but to allow you to see >> your graphics when you use latex and DVI files while writing your >> document." (http://cdn.bitbucket.org/ddrake/sagetex/downloads/sagetex.pdf >> ) >> >> Apparently SageTeX ignores most of the options, even the viewer='tachyon' >> one. But note that later on in the manual it says "you can always do >> things manually". This seems to work for me - looks ok, see attached png. >> >> \begin{sagesilent} >> u, v = var('u,v') >> fx = (3+sin(v)+cos(u))*cos(2*v) >> fy = (3+sin(v)+cos(u))*sin(2*v) >> fz = sin(u)+2*cos(v) >> x = parametric_plot3d([fx, fy, fz], (u, 0, 2*pi), (v, 0, >> 2*pi),frame=False,dpi=300,viewer='tachyon') >> x.save(filename='ClassNotesPics/myspecialfile.png') >> \end{sagesilent} >> >> This 3d plot looks okay: >> >> \begin{center} >> \includegraphics[scale=.4]{ClassNotesPics/myspecialfile.png} >> \end{center} >> >> >> OK, i'll use the manual mode (save into png -> includegraphics). > That said, i've noticed that you're using [scale=.4]. How would it look > without scale=.4? The point is that DPI info should allow typesetter to > guess image size correctly, and it should look OK without scaling. Or not. > After all, default image resolution does not seem to have any relation to > dpi=..., so high dpi means "scale down", while low dpi means "scale up", > but increasing/decreasing resolution (using figsize) will throw that > scaling off...Damn. OK, so the right way is to specify dpi that is high > enough for "printing" (that would be 300), then increase image resolution > with figsize until the image is large enough. Right? >
That I do not know. I only put the scale in there because I copied from something else in one of my files. I nearly always have to scale down from images I find to put them in class notes or other documents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
