hagit lev wrote:
Hi
I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I
wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them
first to jpeg and only then import ?
Cause I tried to export surfer to EMF, but the result in the DVI file
was a huge picture, and when I tried to minimize it (scaling it to only
20% in the figure dialog box) the quality was horrible.
Oh, and I did read the intro and tutorial and went over almost all the
other guides. nice humor:)
Thanks
Hagit
There are two separate issues to deal with: importing graphics in a way
that allows them to be correctly presented in the final document (DVI,
PDF, whatever); and importing them in a way that allows them to be
correctly displayed within the LyX editing window. The latter is not a
prerequisite to the former -- it's entirely possible for LyX to have no
idea how to display an image that appears correctly in the final output.
In fact, I typically turn off image displays in LyX to save CPU cycles.
You might have a look at the following Wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FiguresInLyX. As noted near the top, the final
output can contain any image format that LaTeX can correctly ingest.
The bulk of the Wiki page is devoted to questions of what formats LyX
can display in the edit screen.
You might also have a look at
http://tex.loria.fr/graph-pack/epslatex.pdf, which discusses what
formats LaTeX can process and how conversions to them occur.
Paul
