On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Les Denham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) > > graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the > > presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I > > plan to add them to the presentation as images afterwards. > > Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to > > draw graphs directly in lyx? > > > Ola, > > LyX does not have built-in graphing, but there are a number of easy-to-use > tools out there which LyX supports very nicely. Personally, I use Grace > http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/. > > Unfortunately, it appears that installing Grace on Windows (which I assume is > your OS) does not appear to be trivial. I haven't tried it. > > However, the way you are doing it can work quite well, or at least as well as > anything using MS Word (wouldn't Excel be better?). If you can save the > graph in a vector format that LyX can read (such as PDF or Postscript) the > results will be better than saving it as a raster file. > -- > Les > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >
There was an extensive discussion of vector drawing programs recently. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63810.html Cheers, /Bob
