Hi James,
you could use ImageMagick to convert your image file in any format to
any other format including eps. That means that you can run your
favourite package for generating your image files, save it a format for
which the package doesn't crash and convert it to eps with ImageMagick.
If you are running Linux, ImageMagick is probably already installed on
your machine (at least Slackware and Redhat come with it). Type
`display' from the command line. Alternatively, you could use `convert'
also from ImageMagick. Try 'man convert' and 'man display' to see how
these programs work.
Cheers,
Andre.
James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear LyX users,
>
> I feel as if I am at my wit's end trying to find a vector drwaing
> program which allow me to create drawings which I can export as eps
> files for
> inclusion in a LyX document. I may have no alternative, but to use
> xfig, but it seems
> very unwieldy and it seems to take me forever to draw anything.
>
>
> These are the other packages I have tried:
>
> Package Problem
>
> Killustrator Crashes when I try to export as eps
> Dia Crashes and unable to reload *.dia file (still
> at ver 0.86)
> Sketch Can't export eps
>
> Regarding sketch, I am told that it will work if the eps, however eps
> is not directly supported by the PIL (Python Image Library) upon
> which sketch is built.
>
> Killustrator seems like the most straightforward and simple to use, but
> it has a number of acknowledged bugs, and little further work seems to
> have been done with Killustrator since March 2000.
>
> How are eps files created? Filters to create eps files.
> =====================================
>
> I will probably perservere with Sketch or, maybe, even xfig.
> Nevertheless, I would be interested to know how other LyX users
> create Encapsualted Postscript Vector graphic images, to include in
> LyX documents.
>
> Are there filter programs out there anywhere which can create eps
> files?
>
> Why only eps?
> ============
>
> Also, sorry to ask what is likely to be a FAQ, but why are Postscript
> and Encapsulated Postscript the only graphics formats which can be
> imported into a LyX document?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> regards,
>
> James
>
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