Latex Png Image Quality. Improving on the technique described in the last section we can also instruct latex to generate low resolution png versions of images on the fly during the latex run if there is a pdf that has not been converted to png yet. The reason is because the compression is lossy which means that certain unnecessary information is permanently deleted.
Pdf png and jpg modern installations of latex can use eps files as well but indirectly. Note in the link above that if you aren t using sagemath cloud to compile your document and the engine used is latex rather than pdflatex then it won t compile. Some quality is compromised when an image is converted to a jpg.
Converting high resolution images to low resolution automatically.
Using pdflatex several graphics formats are supported. But if the picture is of the extension of png or jpeg the quality gets poor. To use it we include the following line in the preamble. A jpg does however allow you to create smaller file size than you could with a png.
