Georg Baum wrote:
>> Angus Leeming wrote:
>>> Does it work if you specify an absolute path to foo_1.eps within
>>> the xfig file?
>
> I believe so, see below.
>
>> I suspect that xfig generates an eps file that references the
>> foo_1.eps file rather than contains a copy of it. That's why the
>> bitmap file shown on the lyx screen works ok, because the bitmap is
>> complete.
>
> At least on my system here (SuSE 9.0) xfig embeds the included file
> into the .eps file. I suspect that the preview works because the
> preview conversion is done on the original file (and not the file in
> the temp dir).
Are you sure that is what happens? Yes, it appears that you are.
string filename;
if ((zipped_ = zippedFile(filename_))) {
unzipped_filename_ = tempName(string(), filename_);
filename = unzipFile(filename_, unzipped_filename_);
} else
filename = filename_;
> My solution to this problem is to produce the postscript files from
> exported .tex files with a Makefile, but mainly because lyx converts
> the images too often otherwise.
Yes, make is rather more sophisticated than lyx. No bad thing ;-)
--
Angus
