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What is the common approach to include pictures/figures from pdf files or other sources? My approach is to save the graphic as a jpg. Afterwards I include it into a Power Point and safe it from PP to a png. This is my approach to keep all figures the same size and resolution. Unfortunately, these pictures have a bad resolution.

What is a more elegant and better way to do it?

C.Colden
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  • It seems to me that this question is off topic on this site. – jub0bs May 04 '13 at 09:47
  • Well, I just started to use LaTeX, so maybe it is a trivial question for you, but maybe a very useful for the newbies. – C.Colden May 04 '13 at 09:56
  • @Denis Well, it's no really clear what you want. Do you seek for a way to include graphics in LaTeX? Or to extract graphics from other sources? If second, it's offtopic and better for SuperUser.SE. – m0nhawk May 04 '13 at 10:10
  • I apologize for that. My goal is to find a general approach how to deal with graphics with different resolution so that every figure in my paper looks the same, no matter where it comes from... – C.Colden May 04 '13 at 10:12

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You probably want the \includegraphics macro, which is part of the graphicx package. I suggest reading this article.

John Wickerson
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  • Using eps files instead png files is a good thing, but I can't get eps files from pdf files. I am using figures from papers, which are in pdf files. Using figures from different sources is giving me picures with different resolutions. How can I deal with that? Do I have to pre process the graphic or can I do it with a command. – C.Colden May 04 '13 at 10:10
  • @Denis If you compile your LaTeX with pdflatex, then includegraphics can include pdf, jpeg, png, ... – Alex May 04 '13 at 10:22
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Based on your comments:

  • My goal is to find a general approach how to deal with graphics with different resolution so that every figure in my paper looks the same, no matter where it comes from.

  • Using EPS files instead PNG files is a good thing, but I can't get EPS files from PDF files. I am using figures from papers, which are in PDF files. Using figures from different sources is giving me pictures with different resolutions. How can I deal with that? Do I have to pre-process the graphic or can I do it with a command.

My solutions are as follows:

To make your imported graphics look the same (probably in size), you can use width or height option of \includegraphics macro from graphicx package. Put \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble and invoke \includegraphics[width=10cm]{filename} or \includegraphics[width=.75\linewidth]{filename} or any other variants.

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