owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu schrieb am 16/03/2010 13:02:58:
> <>
> Johannes wrote
>
> > I just stumbled across an unexpected behaviour. I updated some graphs
for
> > a Beamer-Latex presentation. I used the "png" format. But I used Stata
11
> > instead of Stata 10. The result was a file smaller than the previous
> > version (by a factor of four) with a smaller resolution. I guess, png
is
> > not a vector format and not indifferent to scaling. So, there is a
smaller
> > picture with less pixels which looks less nice when its size is
increased.
> > Even if I use Stata version-control, there is no difference. These new
> > graphs look bad in the presentation, so I recreated them using Stata
10.
> > There are many workarounds and this is not a big problem - but is
this
> > wanted, that the output changes even when I use version control? And
the
> > previous default looked better to me. Or did I overlook something?
>
>
> I have no idea what may have happened between 10 and 11, because I
> have never used png format.
> From Wikipedia: "Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped
> image format that employs lossless data compression."
> If you're doing Beamer/LaTeX, why not use .eps? It is fully scalable
> and supported by any LaTeX implementation.
>
> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http:
Eps does not work with pdflatex which I use. I could switch to eps2pdf.
But
then, how do I compile a document that also includes pdf files? Most
convenient
for me, the solution was png. I did not have precompile some parts of the
document
or convert them.
Johannes
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