On 31/05/10 16:30, Julien Rioux wrote: > > The preview in LyX uses .png format, while pdf or ps output will > prefer vector graphics formats (.eps for dvi or ps output, .pdf for > pdf output), although pdflatex can handle raster images as well. I > would be surprised if you can see a .dot file (either in LyX or in > output) without a converter. In that case there might be a file left > over in your conversion cache folder.
Ok, this helps me decide which converters to create. Thanks! > >> All-in-all I might have totally misunderstood the idea behind the >> converters, so please let me know if that's the case. >> >> > > I don't think you got it wrong. Converters are easy to use for graphic > inclusion, so I would recommend that. If you really want to include > the generated latex code, you will have to define a new type of > external material. It's not impossible at all, but it is less > documented feature of LyX. > I'm unfortunately not very familiar with TeX, but it seems to be impossible to simply do something like "cat file.tex | pdflatex > file.pdf" to take my dot2tex output, reconvert it to pdf and use the simpler graphic inclusion feature. Is this a limitation of the design of how TeX documents work, has nobody ever felt the need for something like this, or am I completely missing the point? I know this doesn't have anything directly to do with Lyx, but it just feels like it could make life a bit easier if pdflatex (and friends) could output to stdout. Cheers -- *Leo Antunes*
