On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:49:16 Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote: > On 12/16/2010 12:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 16 December 2010 15:07:01 Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:13:46 Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> My book personalization script magically stopped working today, for two > >>> of my six eBooks. Some of the error messages concerned images. I found > >>> that on one book the SVG images in the book got horribly garbled. As > >>> far as I know, I've done nothing the past few days to effect > >>> generation. My LyX is 1.6.4. > >> > >> Partially solved. The failure to compile had nothing to do with SVG > >> images. It was caused by LyX's recently acquired feature of putting @ > >> and \textbar into index entries, and can be worked around by changing > >> LyX's LaTeX output encoding to T1 instead of default. M-I-C... > >> > >> Interestingly, two of my four ebooks containing indexes appeared > >> perfectly able to compile with default encoding, so when I get the time > >> I can probably exploit the differences to find out a per-document > >> solution. > >> > >> As far as image distortion, I suspect that has to do with SVG, so I'll > >> continue researching that. > > > > More info. My .svg files were created with Inkscape. Their image sizes in > > Inkscape were not shrunk down to the size of the graphic, but instead > > were 8.5x11 or some such. When I put tiny rectangles on the upper left > > and lower right, selected everything, and File->Properties->size to > > selection, saved, and reran the LyX compile, the images came out > > approximately right. Two things: > > > > 1) The upper left rectangle has to be quite a bit higher than the highest > > material you want to show, because some is cut off. > > > > 2) The conversion process loses objects' order from top to bottom, or at > > least I'll have to redo the Inkscapes for order. > > > > At this point I'm giving serious consideration to converting to eps > > manually and including the eps in my book, because the slightest change > > to SVG to EPS conversion could mess up my book at any time. > > > > I'll report more on all this stuff later... > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > Recession Relief Package > > http://www.recession-relief.US > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > Inkscape objects default to the drawing object if you don't select the > specific object to export. > > - Marc
Sounds reasonable. That's why I had to change the size of the drawing, which I assume is what you mean by the "drawing object". SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
