I tried libreoffice, but it didn¹t render the emf files correctly.
The metafile2eps suggestion is too daunting to an ordinary LyX user such as meŠ Thanks everybody! Jan Annaert On 24/08/15 20:59, "[email protected] on behalf of Georg Baum" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> You have two options: >> >> 1) use e.g. Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) in wine / PlayOnMac >> (https://www.playonmac.com/) to convert the images to a different >> format. Irfan view works very nicely on a mac. >> >> 2) if you find a commandline tool for Mac (I didn't find one - please >> keep us posted if you find one) and define your own copier in LyX to >> convert the emf files. > >3) Use our own metafile2eps with wine as documented in >http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter. LyX will do eps->pdf >automatically. The documentation is for linux, but I see no reason why it >should not be applicable to OS X as well. > >4) Find out how to use libreoffice on the command line to convert from >emf >to eps or pdf: libreoffice can read emf files even on non-windows >platforms, >and it is scriptable, so this should be possible in theory, but I have no >idea whether it really works. > > >Georg > >
