Notes on “Principles of Beautiful Figures for Research Papers”

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:33:00 -0500

Journals compress raster images when publishing. Thus it’s better to use vector graphics (SVG for example) to prevent this. Students often don’t know (Oh well, people in general).
Advice: Don’t take screenshots of your computer and put them in a paper.

Even some journals change SVGs to raster (shaking my head). You might have to convert some parts of a graphic for it to be reasonably sized and still readable.

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