Re: Re-sizing figures

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:

> So, you have a figure float containing a graphic and a caption:
>
> float:Figure
> |--------------------------------------|
> |     -------------------              |
> |     | your_figure.eps |              |
> |     -------------------              |
> | Figure #: The caption to your figure |
> |--------------------------------------|

Angus,

  Yes.

> If you fire up the Graphics dialog and set the "LyX Display->Scale:" entry
> to 200%, say and press Apply, then the image is resized, but the resized
> image overwrites the caption?

  Er, ... no. I see that I wasn't clear because I didn't know about the
display and scale options. (Don't see them on the menus, either.)

  I use 'tgif' to create the figures for the book. (This is not intended to
produce a side thread on vector-graphic tools for linux; I found tgif the
easiest to learn and produce the types of illustrations I need.) When the
illustration is too small on the typeset page for the text to be read I need
to make it larger. I do this in 'tgif', save and print (which produces the
.eps flavor).

  When I then view both the lyx figure float and the xdvi output the
newly-expanded figure covers part of the caption.

  If scaling the figure is the proper way to enlarge it then I need to learn
how to do this.

Many thanks!

Rich

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