On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:53:53 +0000, Scott Kostyshak said: > From: Steve Litt [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM > > >I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images > >are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format > >of Inkscape. If anyone knows a way to get LyX to use SVG images as > >vector graphics, please let me know. > > Doesn't LyX already do this? If you go to Preferences > File Formats, > you will see your converters. I have SVG -> EPS, SVG -> PDF, and SVG > -> PNG. EPS and PDF are both vector formats. Perhaps if you don't > have inkscape installed (which is what is doing the conversions for > me and which is searched for by LyX's configure), then your convertor > can only convert to a raster format. > > Scott
Hi Scott, You're right! I looked in /home/slitt/.lyx/cache/, and found lots of SVG's that had been converted to .pdf. A look in file /home/slitt/.lyx/cache/index showed the conversions, and it appears that all my SVG's were converted to both .pdfs and .eps's. IMHO .pdf is smaller and better than .eps, and I'm not sure why it made both, or which is used. Sometimes I use ps2pdf, and sometimes I use pdflatex, and probably that is why it converts both way. You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg graphics with LyX. Thanks for helping me understand this. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
