On May 28, 2014, at 11:12 AM, James Dean Palmer <ja...@tiger3k.com> wrote:
> I recently wrote a little command line utility called transmute that converts > between various image formats using only the Quartz, CoreGraphics, and Cocoa > APIs. Apple's sips utility can do the same sort of thing but, oddly, sips > doesn't support EPS or PS. > > transmute also has some other neat tricks like clipboard support, input and > output from stdin/stdout and setting the page number for conversion (PDF > only). It's available here: > > https://bitbucket.org/jdpalmer/transmute > > Once installed, you just need to add this to your preferences file: > > \converter "ps" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" > \converter "eps" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" > \converter "pdf" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" "" > > And then there's no more dependency on ghostscript or XQuartz for EPS, PS, > and PDF image previews. > > Best, > James > James, I haven't tried this but it looks awesomely awesome. Would you mind making a note on the LyX wiki about it? And maybe an indication, if not already present, how to install without brew, e.g., put in /some/path for those who don't know this. And maybe you can help my confusion. PDF is listed as source-file only but the note about -n pageno sort of indicates that pageno can be applied to rendered PDFs. I'm probably misreading something. Jerry
