From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20101 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mari Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Figure formats Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:43:41 +0300 Message-ID: <426E458D.1060005@iki.fi> References: <1e17824d02cd0109ad521b4f1841dedf@unibas.ch> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114522758 6045 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2005 13:39:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 26 15:39:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQQFV-00044I-Pr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A53127ED; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13250-04-3; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8F1127DE; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1ED6127DE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13250-04-2 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.kpatents.com (mail.kpatents.com [195.170.128.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AF67E1278D for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 32010 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 13:42:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.169?) (192.168.100.169) by mail.kpatents.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2005 13:42:24 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <1e17824d02cd0109ad521b4f1841dedf@unibas.ch> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20101 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20101 J=F6rg Hagmann wrote: > If you have the choice of format when preparing the figures for a book=20 > written with ConTeXt, what would you opt for? (The figures are being=20 > drawn with ChemDraw and Illustrator). I'm not terribly good at this (yet?), but one my main guidelines in this=20 kind of situations in and out of ConTeXt is to keep vector graphics in=20 vector format and only use bitmap graphics (like png or jpg) if the=20 original is in a bitmap format (like a photo). I handle mostly graphics that originate from a 3D CAD program and=20 different types of graphics I draw myself in CorelDraw (equivalent to=20 Adobe Illustrator as far as I know). These both generally produce vector=20 drawings The drawings from the 3D program are mostly in pdf format when=20 they arrive to me and I've found, somewhat to my surprise, that the best=20 way of handling them seems to be to include them as pdf, just to crop=20 them to the picture itself. I also turn my CorelDraw pics into pdf=20 before adding them to ConTeXt based text, that inserts them nicely and=20 makes it easy for me to share any graphics at request (I'm occasionally=20 asked to send just graphic 3.1 from manual x, so it is a good thing to=20 have all of them as pdf). The nice thing with vector graphics is that they are almost indefinitely=20 scalable, so the size of the original is not so critical - and the files=20 don't take much space even when the original is bigger than the graphic=20 in my book. Whenever I have to do something with bitmaps, I try to scale them close=20 to the final size with good graphics programs, I feel that this give me=20 better control over what happens to the graphics when resized (the=20 resolution of some of the originals is pretty bad...). On the other=20 hand, if it doesn't look bad in the final product, why bother... Greetings from Finland, Mari PS. Here's a manual [all public] I've done by using text in ConTeXt and=20 vector graphics in pdf and bitmaps in jpg/png:=20 . For example=20 chapter 5 (at=20 ) has=20 mainly screen capture bitmaps (I used png format) and chapter 4 (at=20 includes a=20 ton of drawings originating from our 3D CAD.