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Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)



On  0, Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> wrote:
> Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > I find that conversion to PS/EPS often degrades bitmap pictures (in
> > particular the over-the-top anti-aliasing makes text and hard lines
> > fairly fuzzy).
> 
> That should only be for display (since AA only happens on display).
> JPEG images can be put into PS file without uncompression, so there
> should be no degradation.
> 
> Now, when converting to PDF many distill-type programs will resample
> the image, which will degrade it, but that can be turned off.

This is news to me; I am only a 'part-time' LaTeX user.  How do I
include jpegs directly in LaTeX without degradation when I make it a
PS doc?

Tom
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