Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! Slowly, my old and rusty LaTeX knowledge is coming back. Unfortunately, I stumble over a problem I can't solve using Google. I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Bonhôte, André wrote: I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have tested

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). ;oP martin On 24/11/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good for some

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi all On Nov 24, 2005, at 1143, Angus Leeming wrote: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there...

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André schrieb: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there... The problem is not the

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. You will always have bad results when you zoom into a jpg, gif, png etc

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Johan Ingvast
Bonhôte, André wrote: This works fine as long as it is eps. Now, I have converted the eps to a zip-compressed pdf (Photoshop), and replaced the filename. Tadaa! Not working. LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic. I really hope to get this sorted soon, somehow. Can I ask pdflatex to

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Thu 24 Nov 2005 14:26:41 GMT, [Bonhôte, André] wrote : \_ Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation.

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
[André] Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc you sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we feed a nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the graphicx nor in the eso-pic documentation. Do you have

Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! Slowly, my old and rusty LaTeX knowledge is coming back. Unfortunately, I stumble over a problem I can't solve using Google. I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Bonhôte, André wrote: I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have tested

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). ;oP martin On 24/11/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good for some

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi all On Nov 24, 2005, at 1143, Angus Leeming wrote: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there...

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André schrieb: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there... The problem is not the

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. You will always have bad results when you zoom into a jpg, gif, png etc

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Johan Ingvast
Bonhôte, André wrote: This works fine as long as it is eps. Now, I have converted the eps to a zip-compressed pdf (Photoshop), and replaced the filename. Tadaa! Not working. LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic. I really hope to get this sorted soon, somehow. Can I ask pdflatex to

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Thu 24 Nov 2005 14:26:41 GMT, [Bonhôte, André] wrote : \_ Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation.

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
[André] Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc you sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we feed a nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the graphicx nor in the eso-pic documentation. Do you have

Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! Slowly, my old and rusty LaTeX knowledge is coming back. Unfortunately, I stumble over a problem I can't solve using Google. I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Bonhôte, André wrote: > I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I > set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, > everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background > image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have >

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). ;oP martin On 24/11/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > INKSCAPE!!! > > www.inkscape.org > > i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next > to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs > (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi all On Nov 24, 2005, at 1143, Angus Leeming wrote: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there...

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André schrieb: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there... The problem is not the

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. You will always have bad results when you zoom into a jpg, gif, png etc

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Johan Ingvast
Bonhôte, André wrote: This works fine as long as it is "eps". Now, I have converted the eps to a zip-compressed pdf (Photoshop), and replaced the filename. Tadaa! Not working. "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic". I really hope to get this sorted soon, somehow. Can I ask

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Thu 24 Nov 2005 14:26:41 GMT, [Bonhôte, André] wrote : \_ Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation.

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
> [André] > > Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc > you > sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we > feed a > nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the > graphicx nor > in the eso-pic documentation. Do