[Jprogramming] Saving .jpg plot

[Devon McCormick]

Thanks for the tip.  I hadn't realized PNG was so much better - my plots
take about a tenth the
space as image files using this.

On 1/18/07, Oleg Kobchenko <olegykj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Devon McCormick <devonmcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Looking at the Wiki pages for the output of plot, I see lines for a
> number
> > of plot-types commented out, perhaps because they relied on the image3
> > add-on which has only recently been updated to work with J6.01?
> >
> > In any case, I was able to save plots as JPEGs even before I installed
> the
> > new version of the add-on so now I'm not sure if that type, and others
> like
> > it,
> > do require the add-on.
> >
> > Do any of these types not require the add-on: jpg, png, ppm, pgm, tga?
> > They all seem to work fine for me now.
>
> As far as I understand, for any of these an addon is required.
> It's not required for BMP or PDF. Instead of image3, platimg
> lightweight addon can be used.
>
> Note: Jpeg is not a good type for saving line art images
> for which it gives pixelation; it's good for smooth images,
> like photographs or some viewmat.
> Better is PNG, which is losses and with good compression
> and other features like multilevel transparency, etc.
>
>
>
>
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