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Re: [O] Options for HTML & PDF export
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Ken.Williams |
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Re: [O] Options for HTML & PDF export |
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Wed, 18 May 2011 16:28:43 -0500 |
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On 5/18/11 4:19 PM, "Nick Dokos" <address@hidden> wrote:
><address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering about "best practices" (though I hate that term) for
>> managing the export to both HTML & PDF. For the HTML I generate the
>> graphics files as PNG, but for PDF the PNG format doesn't embed very
>> well,
>
>What is the problem with PNG exactly? I've never had any problems
>incorporating them into a PDF. It is a bitmap format, so it will not
>suffer extreme changes in magnification without some ugliness of course,
>but other than that I don't know of any problems.
That is exactly the problem =). It does include itself into the document,
it just doesn't look very nice. Since these are data-based graphics
coming from R, their lines should be nice & crisp, but they end up looking
pretty fuzzy.
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Ken Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
http://labs.thomsonreuters.com