Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2012, 21:34:31 schrieb Rudi Gaelzer: > How does LyX handle pdf files to show them with Instant Preview? > > In Preferences -> File Handling -> File Formats, any PDF option uses > xdg-open as viewer, which in my case is Okular (using KDE here). > > However, when Instant Preview is going to display a pdf image for the > first time, it apparently uses gs (ghostscript) to convert the PDF to > EPS first. On itself, this is no big deal, but the problem is that for > some reason gs takes a long time converting the image, and when I have > a text with a lot of figures, it can be quite a PITA. > > Is there any alternative for me in this case?
Use draft and run the pdf conversion with figures before a coffee break Wolfgang
