Graphics, Figures & Tables

tonyuprm · Post by **tonyuprm** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:15 am

Hi all,

I'm converting plots created by gnuplot which are in 'eps' format to 'pdf' (epstopdf) to be included in latex and used with pdflatex. The problem I am having is that the image loses quality when converted to pdf. It looks lighter and it can barely be read. Is there a way to fix this either from running eps2pdf or within my document? Attached are the eps and pdf files.

Thanks!

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shadgrind · Post by **shadgrind** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:24 am

Are you using the standard postscript terminal in gnuplot? It looks like you are. If so, then try the epslatex terminal instead; it generally gives better output for inclusion in LaTeX. See my post here for an example of how to do that.

Post by **localghost** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:10 am

tonyuprm wrote:[…] The problem I am having is that the image loses quality when converted to pdf. It looks lighter and it can barely be read. […]

I don't get this impression. To the contrary the PDF looks better to me than the EPS. As an alternative you could do your diagrams either with pgfplots (based on pgf/tikZ) or pst-plot (based on PSTricks).

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Thorsten

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