RE: [MiKTeX] figure quality

[Down, Ed (Tucson) <ed...@ho...>]

Download the latest generic postscript driver from Adobe and install =
it.
(You may skip this step if you have an existing Windows PostScript =
printer
driver installed, but if you have issues with the output, then download =
the
Adobe one before asking for more assistance). Set the output to FILE by
default.

Now print the figures from PowerPoint (Or any other Windows app) to a =
file
using this driver (I suggest you use the advanced settings and download =
the
outline fonts used instead of the default)

You can test whether this figure is good by opening it in GSView.

I have problems sometimes with the bounding box, so I select the .eps =
option
when printing to the file, then open in GSView and do a ps->eps =
conversion,
selecting my own bounding box.

Because of these bounding box problems I often create a (big) bitmap =
from
Windows apps, then use GIMP to crop, scale, etc, then use bmeps to make =
an
eps for my latex file.

You can include bitmaps directly into latex files (Search for info on =
the
Web, it is there), but I like to convert to eps externally.

I'm sure someone else has other methods, but these options normally =
give me
what I want from Win Apps

Ed=20

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Wibeke Nordh=F8y
[mailto:wib...@me...]
		Sent:	Monday, May 03, 2004 9:29 AM
		To:	mik...@li...
		Subject:	[MiKTeX] figure quality

		Help - I am using powerpoint to make some of my figures, but
I am not=20
		able to convert them into eps-files with a perfect result.

		When I print them from powerpoint directly they look nice,
but when I=20
		export them as tiff-files and convert them to eps somethings
happends.

		I am aware of that there are many things that can go wrong.
I have tried=20
		to use 600 dpi, or at least 300 dpi in my figures (trying to
keep the=20
		size and quality on the figures high for this purpose), so I
open the=20
		tiff-file in adobe photoshop, changed the image size to
600/300 dpi, and=20
		saved as eps-figs. Thereafter I used \includegraphics to
include the=20
		figures in my document. But the quality is not the best.
What can I do -=20
		not use tiff for export (save as *.tif on each figure), use
print to=20
		file (*.prn -> *.ps -> *.eps) in powerpoint?

		I see that I probably should have used another program for
drawing=20
		figures, but that's to late now.

		Wibeke



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