Am 13.09.2017 um 03:29 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:59:55AM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> That’s why I’m trying to establish a conversion path from LyX+SVG-icons to >> PDF-output via PNG. > > If this is implemented and the .lyx files contains an included .svg as a > graphic, then it would also be converted to a bitmap for the PDF output, > right?
Yes, and no. It would be converted to a bitmap if there is no working SVG-PDF converter on the system. Otherwise the fallback-converter SVG2PNG of LyX will be used. > Personally (meaning for my own use of LyX), I would prefer an > error instead of my vector graphic being converted silently to a bitmap. > But I realize (1) I'm not a typical LyX user and (2) including a .svg > file is not as common as a .eps or .pdf file (which I understand do not > need to be converted so are left as vectors?); and finally (3), I don't > have a better proposal. To document the potential improvement when installing a proper converter for SVG to PDF is another option, IMO. Stephan
