2010/10/27 <lyx-users-digest-h...@lists.lyx.org> > From: "M DR" <maida....@gmail.com> > To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:51:56 +0800 > Subject: relative path for images > Hello to all, > > this is surely a very simple question, but I'm a total no-geek and is > driving me crazy. > > I want to change the absolute path of the figures that I insert (the 90% of > them as a float) to a relative path, since I'm working from differents > computers and syncing the files with dropbox. I have found precisely this > info in these help files, but I'm doing something wrong, since it is not > working as expected. >
This is *exactly* the way I'm writing my thesis. It works fine, though I won't call it elegant. If it's safe to assume your document and image files all live within a shared logical root in your Dropbox directory, and all .lyx files will be in either the single directory or a uniform directory structure, you can just edit the file path of the target image in the Graphics dialogue. That is, + doc root is /Users/justin/Dropbox/_PhD/thesis + image files are then under thesis/_src/images/ + lyx files are in structure thesis/chapters/ch1/ So once inserting the image file through the Graphics dialogue in an example file under thesis/chapters/ch1/chapter1.lyx — which will use the full, system-specific file path — you then edit it to be a relative path. If example image file is /Users/justin/Dropbox/_PhD/thesis/_src/images/AR4/Fig7.20-aerosol_effects_schematic-semi-direct.png then it should be changed to traverse (in my case) two directories back to the shared root using the standard OS "../" pointer. * ../../*_src/images/AR4/Fig7.20-aerosol_effects_schematic-semi-direct.png Hope that makes sense. > btw, I am using LyX version 1.6.7,so the path idicated in the first link: > Layout > -> Document -> Praeamble, is the same as Document -> Settings -> LaTeX > Preamble, which is the only one I've found ? > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips > > http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RelativeFiguresLocation > > Thanks in advanced, > > MaDro >
