On Mar 16, 2015, at 5:40 AM, Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just upgraded to Lyx 2.1.3 on Mac (Mavericks) and I am now getting an > error about PDFs > > "Error converting to loadable format" and the file won't compile which may > or may not be associated with this issue, as I am getting dozens of errors, > which I am slowly working through. > > Regardless it would be nice to get some help with this as I routinely have my > graphics as pdfs. > > Any help appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Graham > Graham, I don't know if this will solve your problem but you should know about it. It's the wiki for LyX on OS X. http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac Specifically, refer to the section "On screen quality of included PDF files". As far as I'm concerned, this should be made the default for OS X; the current default renders crappy PNGs that don't look good on screen and don't scale well. Jerry