exporting to PNG is fine, exporting to EPS is ugly
Is anyone able to get nice results exporting to PS or EPS from inkscape? I am using inkscape as a preview and converter in LyX, but I get the same results using the command line or exportin from the GUI. This seems to be a new problem now that I am using inkscape on Linux, when I was using inkscape on Win32, the EPS output looked nice as far as I can recall.
I am using the text-to-path and bounding box options. The output seems to be monochrome instead of grayscale, so there are jaggies everywhere, and the diagram exceeds the size of the page. I just compiled the snapshot with the same results.
PNG previews look great. That is what puzzles me.
Is this a problem with rendering the alpha channel into the EPS which doesn't support alpha?
On 3/2/07, Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@...2133...> wrote:
I am using the text-to-path and bounding box options. The output seems to be monochrome instead of grayscale, so there are jaggies everywhere,
EPS is a vector format, so it cannot have jaggies or lack thereof. It's just that your EPS viewer rasterizes EPS for you with jaggies. Try another EPS viewer.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:30:56PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On 3/2/07, Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@...2133...> wrote:
I am using the text-to-path and bounding box options. The output seems to be monochrome instead of grayscale, so there are jaggies everywhere,
EPS is a vector format, so it cannot have jaggies or lack thereof. It's just that your EPS viewer rasterizes EPS for you with jaggies. Try another EPS viewer.
What do you recommend? The LaTeX output has jaggies even in xdvi. gv and gimp all look the same. In Windows, the whole document rendered to dvi looks fine.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:25:37PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
EPS is a vector format, so it cannot have jaggies or lack thereof. It's just that your EPS viewer rasterizes EPS for you with jaggies. Try another EPS viewer.
What do you recommend? The LaTeX output has jaggies even in xdvi. gv and gimp all look the same. In Windows, the whole document rendered to dvi looks fine.
Actually, I should say the diagram itself looks fine on Win32, but the fonts are a different story. But that problem should be on LaTeX side, because I am trying to use a TTF font in the inkscape diagram. I still find no way to have acceptable output of the diagram structure *itself* using inkscape on Linux, only on Win32.
On Monday 12 March 2007 21:44, Ryan Underwood wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:25:37PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
EPS is a vector format, so it cannot have jaggies or lack thereof. It's just that your EPS viewer rasterizes EPS for you with jaggies. Try another EPS viewer.
What do you recommend? The LaTeX output has jaggies even in xdvi. gv and gimp all look the same. In Windows, the whole document rendered to dvi looks fine.
Dvi output could be part of the problem. If you output the Inkscape file as eps, convert that to pdf using e.g., Ghostscript's ps2pdf, and bring the pdf file into pdftex or Context or (possibly) pdflatex then it ought to clear things up. I never use LaTeX so I say "possibly." I know that pdftex & Context will handle it.
Actually, I should say the diagram itself looks fine on Win32, but the fonts are a different story. But that problem should be on LaTeX side, because I am trying to use a TTF font in the inkscape diagram. I still find no way to have acceptable output of the diagram structure *itself* using inkscape on Linux, only on Win32.
Try printing out the page. It could be a viewer problem as has been suggested. I have discovered Kpdf which has many virtues compared with Xpdf or even Acrobat Reader.
Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@...125...> writes:
I am using the text-to-path and bounding box options. The output seems to be monochrome instead of grayscale, so there are jaggies everywhere, and the diagram exceeds the size of the page. I just compiled the snapshot with the same results.
EPS is a vector format but it has the ability to store a smallish preview. The preview can be either 1-bit monochrome or 8-bit color bitmap.
I think you are seeing the preview, not the image itself.
On 3/3/07, Michael Grosberg <preacher_public@...9...> > EPS is a vector format but it has the ability to store a smallish preview. The
preview can be either 1-bit monochrome or 8-bit color bitmap.
I think you are seeing the preview, not the image itself.
Inkscape does not create previews in EPS files.
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