On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:50:30AM -0400, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > I'm not sure exactly what happens and if there is platform-specific > > behavior. To see the discussion I was referencing, see: > > > > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778 > > > Thanks for the details. Clearly LyX is trying to render SVG without using > conversion rules. In https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778#comment:10 a > work-around to force LyX to use the conversion rules is to remove a library > file. I tried this on my Windows 10 (it's a DLL) and it breaks the GUI of > LyX. > > Because SVG is a moving standard (1.1 is last official one and was released > in 2011, 1.2 is still a draft, Tiny 1.2 exists as a separate standard, 2.x > is still in draft mode, etc.), LyX users should have more control over how > SVG is rendered with the tool they prefer. SVG is not like GIF or JPEG > (yet). > > I see there was already a patch > https://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/6bd5263405/lyxgit that was supposed to > make this work. But from my experiences with 2.2.3 in Windows, it doesn't > seem to be working (anymore). > > Would it be constructive to make a feature request in LyX to allow the > option of bypassing native SVG rendering?
Enrico proposed a patch for stable that might make it in 2.2.4 [1]. If you think there's room for improvement, yes please go ahead and make a separate feature request. Scott
