Georg Baum wrote:
> Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
>
>> In this case I do not use graphs. I am writing a manual and I am
>> mostly inserting screenshots (taken with Ksnapshot and then
>> inserted and scaled down in LyX). Are threre any reasos to use EPS
>> (or other formats) insted of PNG in this case?
>
> No. The only thing you have to take care for is that lyx is able to
> convert from png to eps if you are using latex and not pdflatex. If
> you have Imagemagick installed, Edit->Reconfigure should find a
> suitable converter.
>
>> Here om my LyX 1.3.2 things looks different (se attached)
>
> This is because Edit->Reconfigure did not find pdflatex but it did
> find dvipdfm. The reason is usually that pdflatex is not installed.
As Georg says. No pdflatex installed.
Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex
which will be able to handle your images as-is. Nonetheless, it'll be
a useful exercise for you to get your converters working too, so I'd
recommend that you get to the bottom of that problem too.
Here's some info to get you started.
LyX uses external "converters" to change one "format" to another. You
can specify converters in the Edit->Preferences dialog, or you can
input them in the $HOME/.lyx/preferences file. Entries have the form:
\converter "eps" "png" "my_ps2png $$i $$o" ""
(I use this one to generate images on the lyx screen of any eps
files.)
If no converters are defined, then lyx falls back on the
convertDefault.sh, to be found in the ${PREFIX}/share/lyx/ directory.
(Your lyx executable is to be found at ${PREFIX}/bin/lyx.)
convertDefault.sh is pretty stupid; it just assumes that the input
format can be converted to the output format using ImageMagick's
'convert' utility.
Hope that the process is a little clearer. The moral? Install
ImageMagick and stuff should 'just work'.
--
Angus
