Unfortunately the figures that appear in the HTML GigaScience manuscript have two problems:
Resolution is too low. For many of our figures that are simple diagrams and plots, use of JPEG instead of PNG encoding exacerbates quality issues.
The colors have been changed.
When you click "Open in new tab", you get a higher resolution JPEG (issue 1 is resolved, example), but colors are still off.
I believe the images shown in the HTML manuscript are being generated from the EPS sources we submitted for each figure, but I don't have total clarity on this matter.
Example for Figure 1
Figure 1 is embedded in the manuscript as m_giad047fig1.jpeg with a file size of 45.7 kB (tiny). Here's that figure from the inline HTML view:
And now here's a higher resolution raster version from the Manubot manuscript (screenshot actually, since wanted white background):
Notice the color changes. This is most problematic.
Regarding the resolution, there are obviously benefits to keeping the file sizes small such that the article is fast to load. But I find that the current downsampling is too extreme as the images are unreadable. Also having the break the flow of reading to open a new tab and properly view an image is a poor user experience.
Manuscript is now published in GigaScience at https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad047.
Unfortunately the figures that appear in the HTML GigaScience manuscript have two problems:
When you click "Open in new tab", you get a higher resolution JPEG (issue 1 is resolved, example), but colors are still off.
I believe the images shown in the HTML manuscript are being generated from the EPS sources we submitted for each figure, but I don't have total clarity on this matter.
Example for Figure 1
Figure 1 is embedded in the manuscript as
m_giad047fig1.jpegwith a file size of 45.7 kB (tiny). Here's that figure from the inline HTML view:And now here's a higher resolution raster version from the Manubot manuscript (screenshot actually, since wanted white background):
Notice the color changes. This is most problematic.
Regarding the resolution, there are obviously benefits to keeping the file sizes small such that the article is fast to load. But I find that the current downsampling is too extreme as the images are unreadable. Also having the break the flow of reading to open a new tab and properly view an image is a poor user experience.