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Re: Creating or converting PDF images
- To: rosss at research dot oneworld dot com
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating or converting PDF images
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:59:03 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <200007102246.PAA01207@starglo.research.oneworld.com>
rosss@research.oneworld.com writes:
> What are people using to create PDF format images? I've got a bunch
> of screenshots as PNG files, and when I convert them to PDF with Image
> Magick they come out badly, not completely unusable, but definately
> worse than they started out. If I just use the PNG files, they also
> show up in the resulting book PDF with this same reduced quality.
if this is the pdfjadetex route, then use PNG as is. pdftex makes no
change to the PNG files, just passes them through. you could try
JPEG, if you prefer
sebastian