Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf
> If you use Coreldraw, don't export to jpg you graphic, but directly to eps > type 2 and you will have best quality and no pixelated contours. thats what I did, normaly I do the complete drawing but in this case I had to include a jg. With GIF-Export it works fairly well, thats what I found out the last days. Regards Robert
Re: Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug
cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Marcelo Reis wrote: I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. I can't find anything called alike2.bst. Are you using natbib ? /Sorry, the file can be found at: C:\Arquivos de programas\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\apalike\apalike2.bst My only worry is: Why after I include any citation, all my Bibliographies is messed up :-( Should not be this way, I think / I'm in this problem for weeks and I'm really tired of it, I would appreciate a LOT if some one help me. Don't worry. Bibliographies can be very frustrating and hard to debug. You should give more details. Are you using natbib, jurabib, biblatex ? and a small file with a small bib file. It seems to me that what you want to achieve can be done with natbib. I don't know very well natbib but look the documentation or wait that somebody on the list with more knowledge answers. Cheers, Charles /Yes, Maybe I should try another way but since I spend a lot of time using JabRef, creating the Bib Files and other things I was trying first to solve this frustrating issue :-( Hope some one give me an idea. Thanks /
Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > LyX does this automatically for you, that's why your document works if the > code is inserted directly to the preamble. In former versions, Lyx blindly > embraced any preamble with this pair. Now, it tries to be smart and only > embraces it if the preamble actually contains an @-glyph. Right, but LyX could also check whether \input is used in the preamble and add the \makeatletter,\makeatother pair as a safety measure. -- Enrico
Re: Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug
Marcelo Reis wrote: > I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I > thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. I can't find anything called alike2.bst. Are you using natbib ? > I'm in this problem for weeks and I'm really tired of it, I would > appreciate a LOT if some one help me. Don't worry. Bibliographies can be very frustrating and hard to debug. You should give more details. Are you using natbib, jurabib, biblatex ? and a small file with a small bib file. It seems to me that what you want to achieve can be done with natbib. I don't know very well natbib but look the documentation or wait that somebody on the list with more knowledge answers. Cheers, Charles
Re: An extra space after hyperlinks in PDF
Dan Phan schrieb: I use hyperref to generate clickable links in PDFs file, but I got extra spaces after many, but not all, of my links. Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe
Re: formatting help needed
Hello Richard, sorry for my long silence - I didn't resolve the issues completely, but I got over an important hurdle. I exported my .lyx-file to a .tex-file. This was the only way, I could get in the "\setlength\parindent{0.7cm}" option. It was quite hard for me because the German umlaut didn't get translated properly. I found out that I had to change the encoding to utf8 to make it work. I also added: \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} The next point I need to solve is the header issue: * page number: font size 12 * left pages: chapter title (right-aligned) in small capitals and font size 10 * right pages: subchapter title (left-aligned) in small capitals and font size 10 header not on first page of chapter At present I get both chapter and subchapter titles in the header so that they overwrite each other and are unreadable. The page number is in the footer and should go up to the header. A second point is the font size (12 and solved ;-) but the line distance should be 14 points. How do I get that? Thanks a lot for your help! Markus Just is case it may help, here is my header of the .tex file: %% LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[12pt,english,ngerman]{extbook} \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=3.6cm,bmargin=3.6cm,lmargin=3.5cm,rmargin=3.5cm,headsep=1.2cm,footskip=1.25cm} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{3} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{textcomp} \setlength\parindent{0.7cm} %% LyX specific LaTeX commands. %% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\} \usepackage{babel} \begin{document} Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 15:03:42 schrieb rgheck: > Markus Büchele wrote: > > Hi Lyx experts, > > > > I have been using LYX for over decade now. It has always been a fantastic > > tool, especially for my PhD thesis. > > > > Unfortunately I have arrived at a dead end just before publication. My > > publisher (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany) has very percise > > ideas about the layout of the text and I am unable to adjust to his > > wishes with LYX. > > All of this can be done, probably without too much trouble. > > > Things which need to be adapted are: > > * font in the header, which has to be small capitals instead of capitals > > and a different font size > > I assume here that you mean the page header, or do you mean the chapter > titles? Adjusting the page headers can be done use the fancyhdr package, > and is fairly simple. > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fancyhdr.html > Adjusting the chapter titles can be done using the titlesec package and > is also fairly simple. > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/ > We can work out the details. > > > * header (left pages): the word chapter is printed in all chapters in > > German ("Kapitel" which is correct), but in chapter 9 there is "chapter" > > in the header (a bug?) > > Did you have some English in the document somewhere? It seems as if the > language has gotten changed. > > > * space of indentation at the beginning of paragraphs > > In your preamble, put: > \setlength\parindent{2cm} > or whatever it is you need. LaTeX will accept lots of different units, > too. See here: > > http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html >/ltx-86.html for help. > > > * headlines of chapters without the word "chapter" in the headline and > > different font size > > I think this is where you want to use titlesec. > > An alternative might be to switch to use the book (koma-script) class. > The koma-script classes provide for a LOT of customization. > > Richard
Re: LFUN to switch focus to outline pane and back
Hellmut Weber wrote: > Are there lfuns which switch the focus from the text panel to the outline > panel and back. i think its even impossible to get keyboard focus inside outline even if you try to set it by mouse pavel
An extra space after hyperlinks in PDF
I use hyperref to generate clickable links in PDFs file, but I got extra spaces after many, but not all, of my links. That means an end of sentence period or comma may end up in another line, which is very ugly. Is this a Latex or LyX problem? How do I resolve it? Thanks Dan
Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug
Guys, believe me I did a lot of research regarding this, but until now I was not able to make things works the way I want. I'm developing (at least trying) my thesis, and I can't make things goes the way I want. I need the following style to Bibliography: [Author Name, YEAR] ;. . a example would be: [Reyes & Wiles, 2007] Reyes, A. & Wiles, J. Best Dawn Cybercrime and Digital Forensics Book. Syngress. 2007. I'm from brazil, so I need or the sign & or the word E (the same as and) to separate the names inside []. I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. When I use it things are PERFECT!.. *BUT HERE IS THE HUGE PROBLEM: *When I create ANY citation in my document, ALL the things inside the [ ] in Bibliography just disappear. If I remove the citation, things back to normal and [Name of Author, YEAR] came back. Example: Without Citation in document: *[Reyes & Wiles, 2007] Reyes, A. & Wiles, J. Best Dawn Cybercrime and Digital Forensics.Book. Syngress. 2007. *With Citation in document: *Reyes, A. & Wiles, J. Best Dawn Cybercrime and Digital Forensics.Book. Syngress. 2007. Why this happens?! * ANY Thoughts?!?! I'm in this problem for weeks and I'm really tired of it, I would appreciate a LOT if some one help me. Marcelo
Underscore in Bibliography
Hi, Please, I have many references with underscore in the url, which generates an error when creating the pdf view. I'd appreciate your suggestions. Thank you -- Hesham
Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6
On Monday 25 May 2009 10:40:43 am Oscar Lopez wrote: > Dear all > > I have been able to reproduce the problem. Attached there is a minimal > lyx file together with a minimal preamble (foo.tex) which reproduces the > problem. > > * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and > the aforementioned error appears. If I enclose \input{foo.tex} between > \makeatletter and \makeatother then it works, which really puzzles me. > > *if the content of the preamble foo.tex is directly included in the lyx > preamble > everything work like expected. > > I am completely shocked about such behaviour. :-) You'd be a little less shocked if you worked with macros in C :-) > I am not sure what is > going on and I'd appreciate somebody could comment about this. You have a command in foo.tex that can't be nested further. I think they're called "fragile commands", although we're getting past my LaTeX expertise at this point. You already found the solution -- surround with makeatletter/makeatother. What surprises me is that it's dependent on LyX version. If the LyX file is called bar.lyx, I'd like to see you do the following: lyx-1.5.4 -e latex bar.lyx mv bar.tex bar-1.5.4.tex lyx-1.6.2 -e latex bar.lyx mv bar.tex bar-1.6.2.tex diff bar-1.5.4.tex bar-1.6.2.tex Then run latex on both tex files and see if one errors out while the other doesn't. Exploit the differences. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6
Oscar Lopez wrote: > * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and > the aforementioned error appears. If I enclose \input{foo.tex} between > \makeatletter and \makeatother then it works, which really puzzles me. > > *if the content of the preamble foo.tex is directly included in the lyx > preamble > everything work like expected. The glyph '@' has two different meanings in LaTeX. It is used as an active char (inside the document) and (for instance) as a namespace delimiter (in classes). The latter is the case in your preamble snippet, e.g. in l...@mkboth\markboth To switch between these two meanings, the commands \makeatletter and \makeatother are used. In general, you always need to embrace preamble code with \makeatletter ... \makeatother if it contains an '@'. LyX does this automatically for you, that's why your document works if the code is inserted directly to the preamble. In former versions, Lyx blindly embraced any preamble with this pair. Now, it tries to be smart and only embraces it if the preamble actually contains an @-glyph. In the \include-version, this is not the case. The solution is a.) to embrace the original code accordingly, if it is in a normal tex file or b.) make it a real sty-File (where this is not needed). HTH, Jürgen
Re: Output resolution of PDF
On 2009-05-25, Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to include equations created in lyx/latex inside a scribus > poster (The scribus plugin doesn't seem to do what I want). The output > resolution is too low though (seems to be 72dpi) and the fonts look > really bad. Is there a way to get latex to output the document at a > higher resolution? (I'm using the palatino font at the moment) PDF does not have an output resolution, as it is a vector format. If you use palatino, the font is in vector format too. OTOH, scribus cannot import PDF as vector image but converts it to a raster image! Try to configure the PDF import settings or try via SVG. Also, if you include the equations via screen-shots the resolution will of course be bad. Günter
Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6
Dear all I have been able to reproduce the problem. Attached there is a minimal lyx file together with a minimal preamble (foo.tex) which reproduces the problem. * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and the aforementioned error appears. If I enclose \input{foo.tex} between \makeatletter and \makeatother then it works, which really puzzles me. *if the content of the preamble foo.tex is directly included in the lyx preamble everything work like expected. I am completely shocked about such behaviour. I am not sure what is going on and I'd appreciate somebody could comment about this. I have thought that could be related to master-child documents (the initial lyx file was a master and several child but now it is just one document) but it does not make any sense at all. I usually write the preamble into an external text file, especially when the preamble is complicated like the one of the book in order to be able to easily edit it. However, I enclosing the lyx preamble of the actual book between \makeatletter and \makeatother another errors appear as it would be expected. So, I am completely lost and I do not know how the problem could be solved. Perhaps I am missing something quite evident and I am writing rubbish. Any comment or suggestion is appreciated. Thank you very much for all your help Best regards Oscar Oscar Lopez wrote: Dear Lyxers I am trying to use a lyx template which uses the memoir book class that worked pretty well with lyx-1.5.4 but now with lyx-1.6.2 refuses to compile because the lyx error (in fact latex error) says: \pagestyle{myMainheading} I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything. For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway argument that might be the root of the problem. But if your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away. I thought that the problem could be related to this chunk of code \makepsmarks{companion}{% \l...@mkboth\markboth \def\chaptermark##1{\markboth{##1}{##1}}% % left & right marks \def\sectionmark##1{\markright{% % right mark \ifnum \...@secnumdepth>\z@ \thesection. \% % section number \fi ##1}} } because when I remove it, everything works (the above code is a copy of the memoir manual) I've tried to reproduce the error in a minimal document but unfortunately I am not able to reproduce the error which suggest me that it could be a problem related with other packages. My question is that if there have been some modifications to the memoir layout from lyx-1.5 which can be responsible of the error. Do you have some advises to debug the problem because I am running out of ideas? Thank you very much for all your help Best regards Oscar %--- % Definir los encabezados y pies de los capitulos \makepagestyle{myMainheading} \makerunningwidth{myMainheading}{\textwidth} \makeheadposition{myMainheading}{flushright}{flushleft}{}{} \makepsmarks{myMainheading}{% \l...@mkboth\markboth \def\chaptermark##1{\markboth{##1}{##1}}% % left & right marks \def\sectionmark##1{\markright{% % right mark \ifnum \...@secnumdepth>\z@ \thesection .\hspace{4pt} % section number \fi ##1}} } \makeevenhead{myMainheading}{\normalfont\footnotesize\thepage}{}% {\normalfont\footnotesize\leftmark} \makeoddhead{myMainheading}{\normalfont\footnotesize\rightmark}{}% {\normalfont\footnotesize\thepage} plantilla.lyx Description: application/lyx
Output resolution of PDF
I'm trying to include equations created in lyx/latex inside a scribus poster (The scribus plugin doesn't seem to do what I want). The output resolution is too low though (seems to be 72dpi) and the fonts look really bad. Is there a way to get latex to output the document at a higher resolution? (I'm using the palatino font at the moment) Thanks
XFig and LyX (Was: Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?)
Dear all, I have just (within the last week or so, using the 2.0.0 svn development code, which I've kept up with and compiled) started having problems using XFig figures within LyX. Previously (and the mechanism is still there), to insert an XFig figure, I'd use the "external material" insert, and choose the "xfig" type. Currently, if I do that, the preview will no longer show up in LyX, and upon trying to compile the document, a message complaining of a missing figure will show up, with a mangled path to the file. *However*, quite by accident, I found that inserting the XFig file as a regular graphic (such as a .jpeg or .pdf) now seems to work. Is this going to be a long-term change to the code? It'll certainly make things more consistent to my mind, so long as the documentation is fixed, too. --C.O. / Down with categorical imperative! flutz...@yahoo.com / From: Helge Hafting To: Steve Litt Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:36:08 AM Subject: Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX? Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a > LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and > continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I think > they work anywhere. > > I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only with > .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal > experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of > those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really > work much, much better as LyX doc graphics? Any supported vector format ought to look fine, or there is a bug. There should be no difference between pdf and eps images. PDF might compile faster with pdflatex though. The problem with bitmaps is that screens have different resolutions, and even a cheap printer has much much higher resolution than an expensive big screen. And good printers have much better resolution than that. So, a jpeg that looks good printed on a photosetter or something will have to be one huge file, maybe a full-resolution image from a good camera. But such a big file will render slowly on a computer, and it will not be necessary to look good on a screen. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx Print-out?
Hi, Do like Vincent said To get MS-Word margins Go to Document > settings > page margins and use Top/bottom 2.54 right/left margins 3.17. Another options is to plug into the preamble \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,lmargin=3.17cm,rmargin=3.17cm} But then, if you have a heading, you need to fix that, because it will still be in default, more narrow. Erez On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW < v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > > >Hey all, > > > >I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except > >one problem. > > > >When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the > >page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of > >the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is > >elongated to many pages than it will actually be. > > >But, this is not the case in latex or when you convert > >word to pdf. > > This depends on the document class you use. With the same document > class, this should be the same as in latex. > > >So, what is the solution for this problem. Is there some > >setting that can increase the length of text per line so > >that the text covers most of the page? > > You could either choose a different document class (in > "Document->Settings...->Document Class"), or you may adjust the Page > Format (in "Document->Settings...->Page Layout") or you might want to > choose other Page Margins (in "Document->Settings...->Page Margins). > > Vincent > -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK homepage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Re: coloured background in header and margin
Christiaan Pauw wrote: Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a report that looks something like this: I don't know about odd v. even pages, but the beamer presentation package includes styles that use various combinations of colored headers, footers and sidebars. /Paul
RE: Lyx Print-out?
>Hey all, > >I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except >one problem. > >When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the >page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of >the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is >elongated to many pages than it will actually be. >But, this is not the case in latex or when you convert >word to pdf. This depends on the document class you use. With the same document class, this should be the same as in latex. >So, what is the solution for this problem. Is there some >setting that can increase the length of text per line so >that the text covers most of the page? You could either choose a different document class (in "Document->Settings...->Document Class"), or you may adjust the Page Format (in "Document->Settings...->Page Layout") or you might want to choose other Page Margins (in "Document->Settings...->Page Margins). Vincent
Lyx Print-out?
Hey all, I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except one problem. When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is elongated to many pages than it will actually be. But, this is not the case in latex or when you convert word to pdf. So, what is the solution for this problem. Is there some setting that can increase the length of text per line so that the text covers most of the page? Thank you in advance for the help! Bruh
RE: Navigation menu -> list of tables includes comment tables
>I use Lyx 1.5.2 on Fedora. I have noted that in the >Navigation menu -> list of tables Lyx lists also tables >which are in the "note" (commentary) environment and >therefore are not seen in the LaTeX output. For the >counts in Lyx (e.g. Table 3) it counts these tables >too. The same is right for figures. > >Is that a bug (maybe already cleaned in newer versions) >or is there a good reason for that, which I am not able >to see? Yes, this was a bug and it is indeed fixed in newer versions of LyX (1.6.3 will be released quite soon). Vincent
Navigation menu -> list of tables includes comment tables
Hello, I use Lyx 1.5.2 on Fedora. I have noted that in the Navigation menu -> list of tables Lyx lists also tables which are in the "note" (commentary) environment and therefore are not seen in the LaTeX output. For the counts in Lyx (e.g. Table 3) it counts these tables too. The same is right for figures. Is that a bug (maybe already cleaned in newer versions) or is there a good reason for that, which I am not able to see? Thanks for your help and the awesome program!! Cheer, - helmut -- Helmut Hauser Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences Technische Universitaet Graz Inffeldgasse 16b, I A-8010 Graz, Austria --- helmut.hau...@igi.tugraz.at Tel: + 43 316 873-5821 Fax: + 43 316 873-5805 http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/
memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6
Dear Lyxers I am trying to use a lyx template which uses the memoir book class that worked pretty well with lyx-1.5.4 but now with lyx-1.6.2 refuses to compile because the lyx error (in fact latex error) says: \pagestyle{myMainheading} I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything. For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway argument that might be the root of the problem. But if your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away. I thought that the problem could be related to this chunk of code \makepsmarks{companion}{% \l...@mkboth\markboth \def\chaptermark##1{\markboth{##1}{##1}}% % left & right marks \def\sectionmark##1{\markright{% % right mark \ifnum \...@secnumdepth>\z@ \thesection. \% % section number \fi ##1}} } because when I remove it, everything works (the above code is a copy of the memoir manual) I've tried to reproduce the error in a minimal document but unfortunately I am not able to reproduce the error which suggest me that it could be a problem related with other packages. My question is that if there have been some modifications to the memoir layout from lyx-1.5 which can be responsible of the error. Do you have some advises to debug the problem because I am running out of ideas? Thank you very much for all your help Best regards Oscar
Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I think they work anywhere. I'm so old I remember the days when LyX seemed to work reliably only with .eps. THen it could work with .png/.jpg/.gif. But nowadays my personal experience is that PDF images inside the doc work much better than any of those other formats ever did. Is this a placebo effect, or do PDFs really work much, much better as LyX doc graphics? Any supported vector format ought to look fine, or there is a bug. There should be no difference between pdf and eps images. PDF might compile faster with pdflatex though. The problem with bitmaps is that screens have different resolutions, and even a cheap printer has much much higher resolution than an expensive big screen. And good printers have much better resolution than that. So, a jpeg that looks good printed on a photosetter or something will have to be one huge file, maybe a full-resolution image from a good camera. But such a big file will render slowly on a computer, and it will not be necessary to look good on a screen. Helge Hafting
Re: coloured background in header and margin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Christiaan Pauw schrieb: Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a report that looks something like this:... Coloring the header and footer should be possible, but coloring the margin note seems not to be possible. Is it really a colored margin note (with text), or simply a colored rectangle decorating part of the margin area? It is possible to put a colored box or image just where you want it. The true height and width of the thing can be hidden from latex by embedding it in a raisebox commands that gives it a fake zero size. Obviously, nothing prevent other typeset material from crashing into such a construct, but there is usually nothing in the margin anyway. I used such a technique for the chapter pages in my book. The publisher gave me a full-page image with various colored edges that were supposed to go from edge to edge on the paper. I see no problem with this page layout, except that it may require some oddball latex commands and a bit of trial and error. Could surely be a problem for anyone who don't have time to learn latex commands though. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?
José Matos wrote: I use mostly gnuplot (for 3d), matplotlib and R. Sometimes I call both gnuplot and R from python (rpy for the r <-> python part). It does look like Python offers a rather useful thing to learn. Graham
Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf
On 2009-05-25, Robert Neumann wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: > I found a solution which is acceptable for me: I export it from > CorelDraw as a grayscale-Gif. This works fairly well, at least I can > life with that... Regards Robert Fine. Generally, JPEG is not suited for drawings or any images with sharp lines. It is designed for fotographies with smoth gradients. If it worked well with some images, this might just be a coincidence. The rule of thumb I use is * if possible, use a vector format (SVG, PDF, EPS) * for a pixel graphic with few colours and sharp lines, use a lossless pixel comprssion (PNG or GIF, TIFF) * for photo images (smoth gradient, many colours) use JPEG. Günter
Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf
> Well, seems like the time to apologize. It was my point of view and I > was wrong. Next time, I try to be more constructive... Accepted;-) Next time I have a problem, I will post the link to the old thread about the strange fact that the newer latex takes more than twice the time immediately. It could seem a bit weird, that I don't want to upgrade... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/34234/focus=34251 Regards Robert
Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf
Guenter Milde writes: > Do you scale the figure in question or set a fixed size? Re-sizing pixel > images can lead to bad surprises. yes, I just tried with 100%: No Difference. > EPS and PDF can both "include" JPEG and PNG images -- in newer versions. > Some convertors, however, will default to the "save" old format versions and > convert the image to an internal representation of the pixel data. You will > usually realize this by a huge increase of the file size. I found a solution which is acceptable for me: I export it from CorelDraw as a grayscale-Gif. This works fairly well, at least I can life with that... Regards Robert
Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?
On Sunday 24 May 2009 17:44:16 Graham Smith wrote: > Thanks, > > As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't using R, I would > be using very expensive commercial alternatives, which I still have > licenses for , but no longer upgrade. I use mostly gnuplot (for 3d), matplotlib and R. Sometimes I call both gnuplot and R from python (rpy for the r <-> python part). > Graham -- José Abílio