Re: fltk printing [PDF problems]

[Søren Hauberg]

man, 09 08 2010 kl. 13:50 -0700, skrev bpabbott:
> On 09 Aug, 2010,at 04:03 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 8 August 2010 14:16, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Another solution would be to determine why surface plots exported
> > as EPS render so slowly, and fix that.
> > 
> > I thought it was an inherent limitation of the EPS format? It's bad
> > in
> > general not just with surface plots, but with bitmaps in general.
> > I've
> > seen similar behaviour when trying to get a photograph into a LaTeX
> > document. The eps is ginormous compared to a jpg.
>  
> My understanding is that jpg's have compression and eps does not.

Comparing JPEG's to EPS's is comparing apples to oranges. JPEG is a
bitmap format (and thus suitable for images), while EPS is a vector
format (and thus suitable for plots).

> Regarding the surface plot, it is a vector plot. I don't see any
> reason why eps should be less efficient than pdf.

Roughly PDF = EPS + compression so PDF can be more efficient.

Soren