Fr�d�ric Wullens wrote: > A question and a general comment about setting the preferences for > viewing the different file formats in the Lyx window. > -If you make a modification in the converter part of the > preferences, save them and AFTER reconfigure, do you loose the > modifications that you have just done? I have tried this and > sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It the modifications are > lost by the "reconfigure" action, then I cannot see the various file > format any more and I have renter the converters.
I think that you have to restart lyx after a reconfigure. That is something that I'd like to address one day. > How are preferences and reconfigure related to eachother? Does > anyone know? -To tackle this, I reconfigured once and then enter my > converters directly in the preferences file (C:\Documents and > Settings\Frederic Wullens\.lyx under windows2000) as follows: > # CONVERTERS SECTION ########################## > # > > \converter "lyxpreview" "ppm" "convertDefault.sh " "" > \converter "jpg" "eps" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "gif" "eps" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "png" "eps" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "eps" "eps" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "eps" "ppm" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "eps" "png" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "jpg" "png" "convert $$i $$o" "" > \converter "gif" "png" "convert $$i $$o" "" > > -Conclusion, I can see gif, jpg thanks to the 2 last rows. If you run 'lyx -dbg graphics', one of the first things printed to the console are the graphics formats that the GUI library can handle natively. Are you sure that your Qt library can't load jpg images? > I hope that the following : > \converter "eps" "png" "convert $$i $$o" "" > would help to display eps pictures in Lyx, but it doesn't work. Does > anyone have a suggestion. What happens if you run convert 'by hand'? -- Angus
