Thank you for all the contribution,
Summarized:
The latex export command line option works fine for regular latex, latex
myfile.tex generates a valid dvi file.
If you want to use pdflatex you should either:
1) edit the resulting .tex file and replace \usepackage{graphicx} with
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like
for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed
's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done
3) Do not use gif's but png's instead
Maarten
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg Baum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: Lyx command line question
>
>
> Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
>
> > Yes it should but you must note that Export->Pdflatex is
> different to
> > Export->latex followed by running pdflatex on the file.
> >
> > In the second case the only Export that Lyx is performing
> is Lyx->tex.
> > This will not convert any graphics file formats.
>
> This is true for 1.3.x, but 1.4 converts included graphics
> files if needed, and references the converted file in the
> .tex file. So the procedure
>
> lyx --export latex mylyxfile.lyx
> pdflatex mylyxfile.tex
>
> should produce identical results to export->pdflatex from
> GUI, with one
> exception:
> lyx --export latex can not know if the produced .tex file
> will be run through pdflatex or latex. It assumes latex, and
> this is the problem here: The gif file is converted to eps,
> and the .tex file contains '\includegraphics{foo}'. latex
> would find foo.eps (which was created), but pdflatex would
> find foo.pdf, foo.png or foo.jpg.
>
> > So I recommend you use png or jpg files in the original dicument.
>
> This is indeed a workaround until we have a 'pdflatex' export format.
>
>
> Georg
>
>
