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First the <I>PostScript</I> file was converted to PDF (using <A NAME="tex2html1797" HREF="../man/ps2raster.html"><I><B>ps2raster</B></I></A><A NAME="31139"></A>), then loaded into <I>PowerPoint</I><A NAME="31143"></A> and the white background color was made transparent using the formatting toolbar (shown on the left side of Figure <A HREF="#fig:rendering">C.1</A>). Clearly, when we let <I>PowerPoint</I><A NAME="31146"></A> do the rendering, we do not get the best result: <OL> <LI>The anti-aliasing causes the tiles that make up the land to stand out. This is because the anti-aliasing algorithm blurs all edges, even when the tiles join seamlessly. </LI> <LI>The background color was assumed to be white, hence the text is ``smoothed'' using gray shades. Instead, shades of blue which would be appropriate for the background we are using. </LI> </OL> <P> On the central column of Figure <A HREF="#fig:rendering">C.1</A> we have included PNG versions of a portion of the same example. This shows the workings of anti-aliasing and different resolutions. All samples were obtained with <I>convert</I><A NAME="31149"></A>. The one on the top uses all default settings, resulting in an anti-aliased image at 72 dpi resolution (very much like the PDF included directly into <I>PowerPoint</I><A NAME="31152"></A>). <P> Just switching anti-aliasing off (middle) is clearly not an option either. It is true that we got rid of the gray blurring and the seams between the tiles, but without anti-aliasing the image becomes very blocky. The solution is to render the image at a higher resolution (e.g., 300 dpi) without anti-aliasing and then shrink the image to the appropriate size (bottom of the central column in Figure <A HREF="#fig:rendering">C.1</A>). The scaling, rotation as well as the selection of the transparent color can be accomplished through the ``Formatting'' tool bar and the ``Format Picture'' dialogue box of <I>PowerPoint</I><A NAME="31155"></A> (Figure <A HREF="#fig:formatpicture">C.2</A>), which can be found by double clicking the included image (or selecting and right-clicking or control-clicking on a one-button mouse). <P> <HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html5527" HREF="node198.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5521" HREF="node195.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5517" HREF="node196.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5523" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5525" HREF="node258.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="index.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5528" HREF="node198.html">C.4 Concluding remarks</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5522" HREF="node195.html">C.3 Examples</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5518" HREF="node196.html">C.3.1 GMT graphics in</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html5524" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <B> <A NAME="tex2html5526" HREF="node258.html">Index</A></B> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> Paul Wessel 2011-02-27 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>