Re: Slightly Offtopic LaTeX question

[Paolo Molaro <lupus debian org>]

On 01/14/01 Stephen Wilhelm wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I've finished converting my tutorial over to DocBook SGML
> (with consideration made to upgrading to XML sometime later), and it works
> great.  There is, however, one problem that I hope someone here can help
> me with.
>
> I'm using the cygnus tools to take DocBook SGML and create PDF and
> PostScript files.  These tools use Jade and LaTeX to accomplish the
> conversion.  Now, my screenshots are all GIF images, which LaTeX doesn't
> seem to recognize as a valid image file extension, so I used convert to
> create JPG files.  LaTeX seems happy, but the resulting PDF and PostScript
> files look horrible (the images are very grainy, and in some cases are
> blocky).

I use png images usually for screenshots in docbook docs, they are
way better then jpeg (jpeg is lossy), and you also avoid the silly
patent problems.

lupus

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