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Quality of Printed Images
Since it is often desirable to get a good quality print on paper directly from the browser, here are the same equations as earlier. This time the `extrascale=' option has been used with a value of 1.5. More than twice the number of pixels are available, for a cost of approximately 1.7 times the disk-space9.

Figure 3: Displayed math environments with extra-scale of 1.5
 

\begin{displaymath}
\Phi_{l+1,m,n} = \Bigl(\Phi+h\frac{\partial\Phi}{\partial x}...
...\frac{\partial^3\Phi}{\partial x^3} +  \ldots \Bigr)_{l,m,n}
\end{displaymath} (4)

\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\Phi_{l+1,m,n}-2\Phi_{l,m,n}+\Phi_{l-1,m,n}}{h^{2}} +
\fr...
...hi_{l,m,n+1}-2\Phi_{l,m,n}+\Phi_{l,m,n-1}}{h^{2}} = -I_{l,m,n}(v)
\end{eqnarray}


On-screen these images appear slightly blurred or indistinct. However there can be marked improvement in the print quality, when printed from some browsers; others may show no improvement at all. The ``anti-aliasing'' helps on-screen. In the printed version jagged edges are indeed softened, but leave an overall fuzziness.

Here are the same equations yet again; this time with `extrascale=2.0'. Now there are 4 times the pixels at a cost of roughly 2.45 times the disk space. Compared with the previous images (having 1.5 times extra-scaling), there is little difference in the on-screen images. Printing at 300dpi shows only a marginal improvement; but at 600dpi the results are most satisfying, especially when scaled to be comparable with normal 10pt type.

Figure 4: Displayed math environments with extra-scale of 2.0
 

\begin{displaymath}
\Phi_{l+1,m,n} = \Bigl(\Phi+h\frac{\partial\Phi}{\partial x}...
...\frac{\partial^3\Phi}{\partial x^3} +  \ldots \Bigr)_{l,m,n}
\end{displaymath} (5)

\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\Phi_{l+1,m,n}-2\Phi_{l,m,n}+\Phi_{l-1,m,n}}{h^{2}} +
\fr...
...{l,m,n+1}-2\Phi_{l,m,n}+\Phi_{l,m,n-1}}{h^{2}} = -I_{l,m,n}(v)\;.
\end{eqnarray}




Footnotes

... disk-space9
This figure varies with the graphics format used, and the complexity of the actual image.

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 Ross Moore 1991-03-26    Processed by LaTeX2HTML-FU