On 2012-01-16, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I've now tried your "equation editor/picture cropper" at > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7839 using GSview for postscript and > Acroreader for pdf.
> For both template files, EPS.lyx and PDF-cropped.lyx, I had to reduce > the \lyxformat from 416 to 413 for them to be accepted by LyX 2.0.2 on > my system. The templates were written with the development version. For the Wiki, "downgraded" variants that work with the release version would be better, indeed. > For both ps and pdf I tried an equation (Pythagoras' theorem, > a^2+b^2=c^2) and a pstricks graphic (a labelled right-angled triangle). > Postscript: in GSview, the equation is cropped just right. That's neat. > I like it. The triangle however is cropped too severely, so that the > labels for the vertices and two of the sides are largely cropped out of > the picture. The cropping is targeted at the geometric stuff as if the > text stuff isn't there. This seems to be a limitation of ps2eps. AFAIK, there is an alternative converter that works around this issue. (But I don't know the details now.) > PDF: Compiling with pdflatex, which I presume is what is intended, I get > an error message in LyX at the cropping stage: > An error occurred while running: pdfcrop "equation.pdf" "tmpfile.out" > Looking in the temporary directory shows the aux, log, tex, and > tex.dep-pdf files. The log file claims "Output written on equation.pdf" > but there is no equation.pdf there. Strange. An equation works here. Just to be sure: do you know that pstricks does not work with pdflatex? Could you try with a new document and View>Other formats>PDF (pdfcrop)? If this fails, export an example to PDF and try to crop with pdfcrop on the command line. Günter
