Angus Leeming wrote:
>>_PLEASE_ enlighten me here. Are you talking about _loading_ or about
>>_converting_ or maybe about both? I think we should make a distinction
>>about _convert_ an image and _load/draw_ and image.
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> Just loading.
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> The preview code will gather all the latex snippets together and send them
> off as a forked process to convert to X image files of PPM format. LyX
> (xforms) can load these natively. It is this loading process that takes time
> for 1000 equations. Hence Lars' idea of a thread.
Ok that specified how much time takes it to just load 1-3 screenfull
of images (obviously not only images but the screenfulls of your
document)? It is not necessary to load all images at starting of lyx
but only when they are needed.
Jug
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