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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use adjustbox rather than resizebox for diagrams?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:04:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si0serhs.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871t8eqe5c.fsf@tops.chopps.org

<chopps@chopps.org> writes:

> I've had very good luck using adjustbox for diagrams in ox-beamer
> generated presentations. I've had much less luck using the standard
> output (resizebox). I'm wondering if people might consider switching
> over to adjustbox rather than resizebox for graphical inclusion?
>
> The main difference between adjustbox and resizebox seems to be that
> resizebox always resizes the included graphics whereas adjustbox only
> resizes the graphics if they exceed the space as specified, and then the
> graphics are scaled proportionally. This generally leads to getting what
> you actually want all the time vs. having to tweak either the width or
> height of the results to get the correct visuals.
>
> IOW if ox-latex switched to adjustbox it could assign defaults for both
> width and height and generally the user would get what they wanted
> without having to specify anything.
>
> Example raw latex using adjustbox:
>
> \begin{adjustbox}{max totalsize={.9\textwidth}{.9\textheight},center}
> \input{sequence.tikz}
> \end{adjustbox}

Interesting, I wasn't aware of adjustbox.

Resizebox has the advantage that it doesn't require another dependency.
For that reason I have a slight preference for resizebox (though I'd
probably use neither).

Thanks,
Rasmus

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15 13:47 use adjustbox rather than resizebox for diagrams? chopps
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