On Thursday 27 June 2002 9:25 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:57:41AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > It sounds great. Note, however, that for asynchronous conversion you
> > should use grfx::GConverter to be found in graphics/GraphicsConverter.C.
>
> I thought I could just do a
>
>
>       // The real work starts.
>       std::ofstream of(file.c_str());
>       of << "\\batchmode"
>          << "\\documentclass{article}"
>          << "\\usepackage{amssymb}"
>          << "\\thispagestyle{empty}"
>          << "\\pdfoutput=0"
>          << "\\begin{document}"
>          << data
>          << "\\end{document}\n";
>       of.close();
>
>       // now we are done, start actual loading
>       loader_.reset(file);
>
> and it would work automatically.

I think you're right.
The above is the "image" file in lyxpreview format and your script is the 
converter from lyxpreview to EPS (your pdflatex stuff).

> Right now there are two obstacles: 
> 1. the conversion script is not found (which I circumvent locally 
> by a symlink into /usr/local/bin)

>  2. the converter says he finds no path from .lyxpreview to .xpm.

What do you get from lyx -dbg graphics?

Angus

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