Hi,

I have some figures prouced from Matlab using imagesc command. An
example is here:
http://acrids.robince.net/robince/simA_theta1.pdf

This should be rectangular grayscale blocks. It shows up correctly in
acrobat. However in Preview and Skim the image is very blurred - the
boundaries between the rectangular regions are no longer clear.
Preview is much worse than skim (completely smoothed image) - with
Skim you can make out some of the structure but it is blurred.

A more knowledgable friend informs me:

> Seems matlab tries exporting the centres of imagesc graphs as a teeny
> tiny bitmapped graphic which then scaled up. This is pretty much the
> definition of a pathological case of bitmap scaling for any algorithm
> - with more pathology the smarter the algorithm - and betrays
> imagesc's origins as part of the bitmap manipulation toolchain.

Since there is a considerable difference between Preview and Skim I
was wondering if there might be a hidden option for pdfkit somewhere
that could cause either Preview or Skim to display the image properly
- or whether anything else might be done to get either application to
show imagesc plots correctly?

Cheers

Robin

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