Thanks for the feedback. I got this working by making two changes:
1. The path declaration described in In the Preferences under Paths you should append :/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin at the end if you have Inkscape installed at the default location. (Make sure a colon separates it from the other entries.) seemed to be ignored. I had to add it to my bash $PATH 2. Perhaps because of 1, path variables were missing from the converters. For example, SVG -> PDF had --file=$$i instead of —file=$$p/$$i, and similarly for —export-pdf, it was missing the $$p/ > On May 13, 2016, at 12:26 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > > On 05/12/2016 08:28 PM, Ron Stone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’ve followed the instructions at >> <https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages>https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages >> <https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages> but I’m encountering the >> following error on Mac OS El Capitan: >> >> The command >> Inkscape --file="1_Users_ronstone_Desktop_drawing.svg" --export-area-drawing >> --without-gui --export-pdf="1_Users_ronstone_Desktop_drawing.pdf" >> has not yet completed. >> >> The SVG file I am trying to incorporate is drawing.svg, on the desktop (same >> location as the .lyx file that is using it). I don’t understand the >> conversion of the full file path to: 1_Users_ronstone_Desktop_drawing.svg in >> the above error message. Where is that filename coming from? > > Conversions are performed in LyX's temporary directory, in order to avoid > polluting your own directories. I do not know exactly where that directory is > on OSX. On Linux, it is at /tmp/lyx_temdir.XXXXXX, where the X's are random > characters. Inside that directory are various subdirectories for different > documents. LyX's copies the file to be converted into the relevant directory > but renames it so as to avoid possible naming conflicts. > > Hard to know why the command isn't completing. I'd suggest you try running > this sort of command from a terminal. If you can actually run it in LyX's > temporary directory, on the copied svg file. > > Richard >
