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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Figure formats
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426E4132.7@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e17824d02cd0109ad521b4f1841dedf@unibas.ch>

Jörg Hagmann wrote:
> Dear list members,
> If you have the choice of format when preparing the figures for a book 
> written with ConTeXt, what would you opt for? (The figures are being 
> drawn with ChemDraw and Illustrator).

vector graphics : pdf (or eps converted to pdf)
b&w bitmaps     : png
color birmaps   : jpg medium/high

> JPEG, TIFF, eps etc, or doesn't it matter? Should the figures be drawn 
> at exactly the final size, or is resizing when setting ok? Other 
> suggestions?

as long as you have >=600dpi scaling is seldom a problem

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26 13:15 Jörg Hagmann
2005-04-26 13:25 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-04-26 13:43 ` Mari Voipio
2005-04-26 14:03   ` Ville Voipio

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