Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-07 Thread Nicolás
I strongly suggest you to use the OTEditor utility to convert Visio diagrams to EPS. I have been using it for a long time now and I am very, very happy with the result. OTEditor is a free program that can be downloaded from www.sourceforge.net/projects/oletex. It is rather simple to install

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-07 Thread Nicolás
I strongly suggest you to use the OTEditor utility to convert Visio diagrams to EPS. I have been using it for a long time now and I am very, very happy with the result. OTEditor is a free program that can be downloaded from www.sourceforge.net/projects/oletex. It is rather simple to install

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-07 Thread Nicolás
I strongly suggest you to use the OTEditor utility to convert Visio diagrams to EPS. I have been using it for a long time now and I am very, very happy with the result. OTEditor is a free program that can be downloaded from www.sourceforge.net/projects/oletex. It is rather simple to install

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Georg Baum
Aleksandar Kanchev wrote: Hello list, whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? Nothing. PNG files usually work fine. I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export Since Visio produces vector graphics it would be better to use a vector format, e.g. EMF. Then you will not get any scaling problems. See

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hey Georg, thanks a lot for this nice explanation. I figured out yesterday that using bitmaps (i.e. PNG, JPEG) is not the right way. I actually tried exporting the drawing into SVG from MS Visio but it was a disaster. Visio itself was able to recreate the drawing without any problems, but

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Georg Baum
Aleksandar Kanchev wrote: Hello list, whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? Nothing. PNG files usually work fine. I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export Since Visio produces vector graphics it would be better to use a vector format, e.g. EMF. Then you will not get any scaling problems. See

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hey Georg, thanks a lot for this nice explanation. I figured out yesterday that using bitmaps (i.e. PNG, JPEG) is not the right way. I actually tried exporting the drawing into SVG from MS Visio but it was a disaster. Visio itself was able to recreate the drawing without any problems, but

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Georg Baum
Aleksandar Kanchev wrote: > Hello list, > > whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? Nothing. PNG files usually work fine. > I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export Since Visio produces vector graphics it would be better to use a vector format, e.g. EMF. Then you will not get any scaling problems.

Re: Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-06 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hey Georg, thanks a lot for this nice explanation. I figured out yesterday that using bitmaps (i.e. PNG, JPEG) is not the right way. I actually tried exporting the drawing into SVG from MS Visio but it was a disaster. Visio itself was able to recreate the drawing without any problems, but

Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-05 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hello list, whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export it to PNG, open it on LyX 1.5.5 (on Fedora 9). The PNG looks nice in LyX itself, but when I create a pdf the picture gets over-scaled beyond the page size. I tried forcing the picture size in lyx but it

Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-05 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hello list, whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export it to PNG, open it on LyX 1.5.5 (on Fedora 9). The PNG looks nice in LyX itself, but when I create a pdf the picture gets over-scaled beyond the page size. I tried forcing the picture size in lyx but it

Why the ugly PNG pictures?

2008-07-05 Thread Aleksandar Kanchev
Hello list, whats wrong with LyX and PNG files? I draw a diagram in MS Visio, export it to PNG, open it on LyX 1.5.5 (on Fedora 9). The PNG looks nice in LyX itself, but when I create a pdf the picture gets over-scaled beyond the page size. I tried forcing the picture size in lyx but it