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malleat1
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How to display "original size" of the image

Post by malleat1 »

Hello

I've read a link on this question before here, but it didn't solve my problem.

My images for some reason are stretched when I create my PDF file (i.e. way bigger than the original size!).

I'm using TeXnicCenter with this option "Latex => PS => PDF", and my images originally where of type .jpg and I've converted them to EPS using Photoshop.

When I open the images in PS viewer, the size is just perfect!

This is how I'm inserting the images in my .tex file

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\usepackage{graphicx}
...
\begin{figure}
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{Image.eps}
	\caption{bla}
	\label{fig:bla}
\end{figure}
Any questions.... please feel free... (I'm aware that I'm scaling it down by a 1/4, but the resulting images is still really huge!)...

HannaH
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fatra2
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How to display "original size" of the image

Post by fatra2 »

Hi there,

Why don't you just leave the options out of your includegraphics command:

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\includegraphics{Image}
should take the original size of the figure.

Cheers
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localghost
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How to display "original size" of the image

Post by localghost »

malleat1 wrote:[…] I'm using TeXnicCenter with this option "Latex => PS => PDF", and my images originally where of type .jpg and I've converted them to EPS using Photoshop. […]
As long as you are not bound to using packages like pstricks which need this compiling route, there is no sense in converting images from JPG to EPS. Use them as they are and compile with pdflatex. Scale them to three quarter of their size to balance the relation between postscript points (also called big points) and pixel [1].

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\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{filename}
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Thorsten
malleat1
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Re: How to display "original size" of the image

Post by malleat1 »

Thanks guys very much.
Sorted.

I'm using that setting because all papers I need to publish requires EPS, so I've just kept it as a default :? ... I don't really want to mess around too much with it in case it breaks or something :mrgreen:

<<< no time for fixing :ugeek:

Thanks again
HannaH
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