Graphic file formats

[Steve Litt]

Murat Yildizoglu said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 08:49:14 +0700

>Dear Rich,
>If the plot has many points, the PDF may not be the best choice. I
>have even seen cases where the printer cannot process the page with
>such a plot   I generally choose to export such graphics as a bitmap
>(PNG) with a high definition for ensuring a sufficient quality for
>inclusion in the final pdf document or to be sent to the editor. --

I'm not sure what "inclusion in the final PDF means, but if it means
inclusion in the PDF representing the whole book, my understanding is
that he must make that .png exactly the right dimensions, because being
a bitmap, most scaling produces distortions.

My understanding is that in LuaTeX, in PDF mode, can *natively* handle
.png, so no conversion by LyX will be necessary. If this is true, and
if the .png is created with the exactly right dimensions to fit the
book page, then this would indeed be a possibility.

SteveT

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