Preparing Illustrations and Graphics
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PDF, like postscript, supports colour, therefore colour will be visible on the screen
when viewing the proceedings. Authors should not forget however, that the proceedings
will also be published in book form which will be in black and white. The printer will
render colours in greyscales and patterns and authors should inspect the black and
white version of their printed paper to ensure that information is not lost due
to the lack of colour.
Fill Patterns
For best results authors should use standard half-tones (NOT custom) and solid
colour or grey fills.
Use of EXCEL
EXCEL produces nice graphics relatively easily and allows you to print them to
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) files. However, it is very easy to end up with
unnecessarily
large files. This has been observed on several occasions and in each case was found
to be the result of using custom line styles for grid lines on a graph. In
one example, choosing default (auto) gridlines the EPS file reduced from
>4 Mbytes to 37 kbytes and the visual result was not significantly
different.
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JP 10th
April, 2000