LyX ⇒ Border on pictures in exported pdf look odd - light lines

[peljam]

Hi again,

Using LyX, book class, for writing my thesis.

Just adding some graphs in at the moment but something odd is happening. It's not a huge issue but it's bugging me. When I export as pdflatex the graph images will tend to have 3 border lines that are dark, as they should be, but then one border line, usually the bottom one, is much fainter.

When I then zoom in to around 200% all of the lines look exactly the same, and if I print it comes out fine. I was going to put an example up but when I use the pdf snapshot tool and paste it into an image editor but the border line that was too light looked perfectly fine again on it.

I'm using relatively high quality .PNG's, but the same thing happens regardless of quality/compression and it also happens if I use a .JPEG or .PDF image.

I'm a bit confused. On the normal view of the pdf it looks odd but pretty much every other view is fine. I'd like it to look fine on the normal view as well, especially seeing as 3 out of the 4 lines appear as they should. Has anyone else had this happen? Is this just a LyX image quirk?

Pel

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Pel,

as it's ok in higher zoom level and the print on paper is fine, it's probably an issue of the PDF viewer program you are using. Try a different one.

Stefan

[peljam]

That was exactly what the problem was!

Thank you again, and many thanks for the helping in the other topics and putting up with what were, judging by the ease of the solutions, very daft questions.