On Tuesday 23 March 2004 9:34 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> Hi Angus
>
> Thank you for you long and good answer. It's great to have such a
> good mailinglist with contributers like you - a LyX developers!
>
> There is something I still do not understand 100%, but I'll have a
> look at tomorrow. The case is I can see LyX processing the PNG (DVI
> views in Xdvi), but as you say I do not seem to have pdflatex
> installed.

Below are the paths taken from lyx to pdf depending on the compiler 
used. Maybe this helps the understanding?

lyx format --LyX--> latex format
latex format --latex--> dvi format
dvi format --dvips--> ps format
ps format --ps2pdf--> pdf format

lyx format --pdflatex--> pdf format

In other words, if you're looking at a dvi file then you have used the 
'latex' compiler, not the 'pdflatex' one. The latex compiler requires 
that all graphics be in eps format, so lyx converts your png files to 
eps. I assume that it is using the default 'convertDefault.sh' script 
to do so.

Angus

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