Thanks for the responses about why a small bit-map becomes
such a huge EPS.
One thing that should be high on the wish-list is to be able to
insert bit-map images directly into Lyx, and have Lyx encapsulate
them on-the-fly when previewing and printing. Probably cache
the conversions for efficiency.
same for vector images in other formats.
When I'm working on a document, I often revisit an image and
modify it. It would be nice to avoid the manual conversion cycle.
Another important reason is that I like to backup my work to
floppy disk, but it is awkward if my images have become 10 - 20
times bigger. Would have to zip them.
Now dreaming further, it would be nice to have object embedding
so an image can be edited in-place, as is possible with Windows
OLE and proposed for KDE.
Regards,
Barry Kauler
