[Tex/LaTex] Low quality in tex->dvi->ps->pdf

dviepsgraphicspdf

I took a screenshot an then saved as EPS using photoshop. This EPS looks well as it's original source.
I use the following code to insert the image:

\begin{figure}[H]\begin{center}
 \centering
  \captionsetup{justification=centering}
  \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{pictures/proposal/aaaida_use_case}
  \caption{lorem ipsum \label{fig:network-architecture}}
\end{center}\end{figure}

When I compile the tex to dvi, then ps and finally pdf, the resulting image included in the document has a very poor quality, like a JPEG when you save it several times (recompression with quality loss)

Instead of this, if I compile directly to dvi and then pdf it shows nice.

And if instead of saving to EPS I save the image to PDF, using PDFLatex also looks fine.

So I don't understand why the PS step is loosing quality (image recompression).

Finally I don't understand pretty well the differences between DVI->PS->PDF and DVI->PDF on terms of the resulting document.

Many thanks in advance!

Best Answer

For the PS -> PDF step you can use ps2pdf with options to suppress resampling and lossily compressing images -dAutoFilterColorImages=false and -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode. (On windows, you may have to replace the = by #).

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