Re: trouble including Optima font

On 2009-11-09, Liviu Andronic wrote: Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Thank you Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Günter

Re: Problems including a document

On 2009-11-09, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. Did you try with DocumentLaTeX log after a compilation already No! I was relying on the error messages that appear after a failed compilation. Thanks, this is very useful. So, let me reforumulate my

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:38:33PM +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Guenter, With this settings it works for me, but you need to use Insert-Hyperlink instead of Insert-URL. If you want to wrap a long URL at sensible break-points (like /), you need the

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/10/09, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Yes. Roman is set to Palatino, and Sans to [Default]. It makes no difference if I choose some other Roman font, say LM: Optima will still not

Re: Problems including a document

Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6313 Manolo So, let me reforumulate my suggestion with this in mind: it would be nice if the Latex errors message box that appears contained a line reading ... for more information, see DocumentLaTeX log. Could you file a bug (enhancement) report at

lyx and pdf fonts

Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello, Used that binary for quite some time now (on SL 10.6.1) with moderate file size (30 pages). I set the autosave to 1 min and noticed no slowdown, in fact it worked flawlessly. Great work! Sebastian Am 04.11.2009 um 17:15 schrieb rgheck: OK, a binary for testing is now available

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009/11/10 ask2 joakim.askl...@gmail.com: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

Rich Shepard wrote: However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to look sloppy when

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/9/09, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Hmm, I start doubting that I have it installed. Since LyX produced no errors when compiling, I assumed that I did. But I cannot find classico.txt [1], although I should have. li...@debian-liv:~$ locate

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello back again, I have tested the SL build on a bigger document (around 120 pages) and have experienced no crashes so far. Unfortunately, we have been informed about a bad side effect of this fix: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-develm=125777684408838w=2 We have to investigate further. Please

Re: Problem on Ubuntu x86_64

On 11/09/09, 刘霄 asranzalas...@gmail.com wrote: I've got the following problem on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 : - Looks like the same problem I had last week (in my case, Kubuntu 9.10 X86_64). The solution is to install the boost-dev library and configure with --without-

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 joakim.askl...@... writes: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main purpose is

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 schrieb: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunately that never is the case. See http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable

Re: Standard Open/Save-Dialogs in Mac OS X?

Peter Kämpf peter.kae...@gmail.com writes: the Aqua version of LyX uses the QT toolkit to display the usual open and save file dialogs. Unfortunately, these are somehow modified and not the genuine Carbon or Cocoa dialogs of the OS. Is there some way to get enhancements like St. Clair

textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) althought the PDF displays the arrow just fine. The arrow is in a LyxCode environment, but further testing shows that

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It's not. It's bit-mapped, or raster. Rich

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It isn't. As Helge said, it's pretty useful if you need some pixel graphics with relatively large areas of similar colors like screenshots. It is relatively small and has lossless compression. For Photos, jpeg is better but has lossy

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference is inly the compression method. Only PDF and

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.

LyX, PDF Output and Image Quality

Hi Stefano, Since I've been playing with this for the past few days, I thought I would offer my findings so far. SVG can also be used to wrap bitmap images, but I wouldn't recommend it. For the professional writing book, I've been experimenting with support for the different formats and trying

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but rather seldom used. So check that you have a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but

increase the tracking

Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Schmidt mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de Diese Nachricht ist mit Norton Internet Security geprüft

Re: increase the tracking

On 11/10/2009 05:40 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. This can be done using the soul package. With ERT, you could do it as: [ERT]\so{[\ERT]this will be spaced out[ERT]}[/ERT].

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for Windows 7

Hello LyXers, a new version of the alternative Windows installer for LyX is available. This version comes with MiKTeX 2.8 and the latest Python and ImageMagick to be able to install LyX under Windows 7. Moreover this version brings a new feature: It includes eLyXer, a LyX to HTML converter.

eBook to print book conversion script

Hi all, For the first time I must maintain a book as an eBook AND a pBook. You can't really use the same PDF for both... The pBook must have gutter margins to make up for the binding, so the left and right margin will be different and switch places between even and odd pages. For best screen

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 2009-11-09, Liviu Andronic wrote: Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Thank you Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Günter

Re: Problems including a document

On 2009-11-09, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. Did you try with DocumentLaTeX log after a compilation already No! I was relying on the error messages that appear after a failed compilation. Thanks, this is very useful. So, let me reforumulate my

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:38:33PM +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Guenter, With this settings it works for me, but you need to use Insert-Hyperlink instead of Insert-URL. If you want to wrap a long URL at sensible break-points (like /), you need the

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/10/09, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Yes. Roman is set to Palatino, and Sans to [Default]. It makes no difference if I choose some other Roman font, say LM: Optima will still not

Re: Problems including a document

Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6313 Manolo So, let me reforumulate my suggestion with this in mind: it would be nice if the Latex errors message box that appears contained a line reading ... for more information, see DocumentLaTeX log. Could you file a bug (enhancement) report at

lyx and pdf fonts

Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello, Used that binary for quite some time now (on SL 10.6.1) with moderate file size (30 pages). I set the autosave to 1 min and noticed no slowdown, in fact it worked flawlessly. Great work! Sebastian Am 04.11.2009 um 17:15 schrieb rgheck: OK, a binary for testing is now available

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Ralf wrote: So, how about a section giving tips on how to (strategically technically) proceed with large figures (typically exceeding the page borders but still A4) with the requirement that they should appear close the first reference ... Figures larger than the page, as well as large

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009/11/10 ask2 joakim.askl...@gmail.com: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

Rich Shepard wrote: However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to look sloppy when

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/9/09, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Hmm, I start doubting that I have it installed. Since LyX produced no errors when compiling, I assumed that I did. But I cannot find classico.txt [1], although I should have. li...@debian-liv:~$ locate

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello back again, I have tested the SL build on a bigger document (around 120 pages) and have experienced no crashes so far. Unfortunately, we have been informed about a bad side effect of this fix: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-develm=125777684408838w=2 We have to investigate further. Please

Re: Problem on Ubuntu x86_64

On 11/09/09, 刘霄 asranzalas...@gmail.com wrote: I've got the following problem on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 : - Looks like the same problem I had last week (in my case, Kubuntu 9.10 X86_64). The solution is to install the boost-dev library and configure with --without-

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 joakim.askl...@... writes: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main purpose is

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 schrieb: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunately that never is the case. See http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable

Re: Standard Open/Save-Dialogs in Mac OS X?

Peter Kämpf peter.kae...@gmail.com writes: the Aqua version of LyX uses the QT toolkit to display the usual open and save file dialogs. Unfortunately, these are somehow modified and not the genuine Carbon or Cocoa dialogs of the OS. Is there some way to get enhancements like St. Clair

textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) althought the PDF displays the arrow just fine. The arrow is in a LyxCode environment, but further testing shows that

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It's not. It's bit-mapped, or raster. Rich

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It isn't. As Helge said, it's pretty useful if you need some pixel graphics with relatively large areas of similar colors like screenshots. It is relatively small and has lossless compression. For Photos, jpeg is better but has lossy

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference is inly the compression method. Only PDF and

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.

LyX, PDF Output and Image Quality

Hi Stefano, Since I've been playing with this for the past few days, I thought I would offer my findings so far. SVG can also be used to wrap bitmap images, but I wouldn't recommend it. For the professional writing book, I've been experimenting with support for the different formats and trying

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but rather seldom used. So check that you have a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but

increase the tracking

Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Schmidt mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de Diese Nachricht ist mit Norton Internet Security geprüft

Re: increase the tracking

On 11/10/2009 05:40 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. This can be done using the soul package. With ERT, you could do it as: [ERT]\so{[\ERT]this will be spaced out[ERT]}[/ERT].

Re: LyX, PDF Output and Image Quality

Hello On 11/10/09, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: Since I've been playing with this for the past few days, I thought I would offer my findings so far. This wiki page [1] discusses the various advantages and drawbacks of different image formats. Although focused on R, there are many

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for Windows 7

Hello LyXers, a new version of the alternative Windows installer for LyX is available. This version comes with MiKTeX 2.8 and the latest Python and ImageMagick to be able to install LyX under Windows 7. Moreover this version brings a new feature: It includes eLyXer, a LyX to HTML converter.

eBook to print book conversion script

Hi all, For the first time I must maintain a book as an eBook AND a pBook. You can't really use the same PDF for both... The pBook must have gutter margins to make up for the binding, so the left and right margin will be different and switch places between even and odd pages. For best screen

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 2009-11-09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Thank you Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Günter

Re: Problems including a document

On 2009-11-09, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: >> AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. >> Did you try with Document>LaTeX log after a compilation already > No! I was relying on the error messages that appear after a failed > compilation. Thanks, this is very useful. > So, let me reforumulate my

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:38:33PM +, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hello Guenter, > >> With this settings it works for me, but you need to use > >> Insert->Hyperlink instead of Insert->URL. > > If you want to wrap a long URL at "sensible" break-points (like /),

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/10/09, Guenter Milde wrote: > Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document > font setting dialogue? > Yes. Roman is set to Palatino, and Sans to [Default]. It makes no difference if I choose some other Roman font, say LM: Optima will

Re: Problems including a document

Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6313 Manolo So, let me reforumulate my suggestion with this in mind: it would be nice if the "Latex errors" message box that appears contained a line reading "... for more information, see Document>LaTeX log". Could you file a bug (enhancement)

lyx and pdf fonts

Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello, Used that binary for quite some time now (on SL 10.6.1) with moderate file size (<30 pages). I set the autosave to 1 min and noticed no slowdown, in fact it worked flawlessly. Great work! Sebastian Am 04.11.2009 um 17:15 schrieb rgheck: OK, a binary for testing is now available

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Ralf wrote: So, how about a section giving tips on how to (strategically & technically) proceed with large figures (typically exceeding the page borders but still A4) with the requirement that they should appear close the first reference ... Figures larger than the page, as well as large

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009/11/10 ask2 : > > Hi > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if > the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the > case. > > So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from >

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

Rich Shepard wrote: However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to look sloppy when

Re: trouble including Optima font

On 11/9/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? > Hmm, I start doubting that I have it installed. Since LyX produced no errors when compiling, I assumed that I did. But I cannot find "classico.txt" [1], although I should have. li...@debian-liv:~$

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

Hello back again, I have tested the SL build on a bigger document (around 120 pages) and have experienced no crashes so far. Unfortunately, we have been informed about a bad side effect of this fix: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel=125777684408838=2 We have to investigate further. Please be

Re: Problem on Ubuntu x86_64

On 11/09/09, 刘霄 wrote: >I've got the following problem on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 : >- Looks like the same problem I had last week (in my case, Kubuntu 9.10 X86_64). The solution is to install the boost-dev library and configure with --without-

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 writes: > Hi > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if > the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the > case. > > So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from > LYX? > > Main

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

ask2 schrieb: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunately that never is the case. See http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable

Re: Standard Open/Save-Dialogs in Mac OS X?

Peter Kämpf writes: > the Aqua version of LyX uses the QT toolkit to display the usual open and > save file dialogs. Unfortunately, these are somehow modified and not the > genuine Carbon or Cocoa dialogs of the OS. Is there some way to get > enhancements like St. Clair

textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by ("by" is the last word of the error) althought the PDF displays the arrow just fine. The arrow is in a LyxCode environment, but further testing shows that

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by ("by" is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: > ask2 wrote: > > Hi > > I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is > > if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never > > is the case. > > > > So am I

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It's not. It's bit-mapped, or raster. Rich

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. It isn't. As Helge said, it's pretty useful if you need some pixel graphics with relatively large areas of similar colors like screenshots. It is relatively small and has lossless compression. For Photos, jpeg is better but has lossy

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic. the difference is inly the compression method. Only PDF and

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >Steve Litt schrieb: >>> If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if >>> possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only >>> for photos. > >This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or GIF a bitmap graphic.

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.

LyX, PDF Output and Image Quality

Hi Stefano, Since I've been playing with this for the past few days, I thought I would offer my findings so far. SVG can also be used to wrap bitmap images, but I wouldn't recommend it. For the professional writing book, I've been experimenting with support for the different formats and trying

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

Stefano Franchi schrieb: Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think Yes, it is the same but rather seldom used. So check that you have a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >Stefano Franchi schrieb: >>> Only PDF and SVG are vector graphics. EPS is also a vector graphics >>> format but many EPS images are only wrapped bitmap images. >> >> Isn't the same true for PDF? You can wrap bitmap files in it, I think > >Yes, it

increase the tracking

Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Schmidt mailto:gm_schm...@yahoo.de Diese Nachricht ist mit Norton Internet Security geprüft

Re: increase the tracking

On 11/10/2009 05:40 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, please can someone tell me, how to increase the tracking. I want to accentuate a sentence this way. This can be done using the soul package. With ERT, you could do it as: [ERT]\so{[\ERT]this will be spaced out[ERT]}[/ERT].

Re: LyX, PDF Output and Image Quality

Hello On 11/10/09, Rob Oakes wrote: > Since I've been playing with this for the past few days, I thought I would > offer my findings so far. > This wiki page [1] discusses the various advantages and drawbacks of different image formats. Although focused on R, there are

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for Windows 7

Hello LyXers, a new version of the alternative Windows installer for LyX is available. This version comes with MiKTeX 2.8 and the latest Python and ImageMagick to be able to install LyX under Windows 7. Moreover this version brings a new feature: It includes eLyXer, a LyX to HTML converter.

eBook to print book conversion script

Hi all, For the first time I must maintain a book as an eBook AND a pBook. You can't really use the same PDF for both... The pBook must have gutter margins to make up for the binding, so the left and right margin will be different and switch places between even and odd pages. For best screen