Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
GraphicsConverter? el On 2015-08-25 06:07 , Annaert Jan wrote: > Thanks, Rainer, for the suggestions. > I did not find any commandline tool either. As the problem was restricted > to only 11 files, I manually converted them to pdf (on my Windows machine) > and urged my co-author not to use emf f

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Annaert Jan
I tried libreoffice, but it didn¹t render the emf files correctly. The metafile2eps suggestion is too daunting to an ordinary LyX user such as meŠ Thanks everybody! Jan Annaert On 24/08/15 20:59, "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org on behalf of Georg Baum" wrote: >Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> You hav

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Annaert Jan
Thanks, Rainer, for the suggestions. I did not find any commandline tool either. As the problem was restricted to only 11 files, I manually converted them to pdf (on my Windows machine) and urged my co-author not to use emf files anymore ;-) Best regards, Jan On 24/08/15 10:31, "Rainer M Krug

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/24/2015 02:59 PM, Georg Baum wrote: 4) Find out how to use libreoffice on the command line to convert from emf to eps or pdf: libreoffice can read emf files even on non-windows platforms, and it is scriptable, so this should be possible in theory, but I have no idea whether it really work

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Georg Baum
Rainer M Krug wrote: > You have two options: > > 1) use e.g. Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) in wine / PlayOnMac >(https://www.playonmac.com/) to convert the images to a different >format. Irfan view works very nicely on a mac. > > 2) if you find a commandline tool for Mac (I didn't

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Rainer M Krug
Annaert Jan writes: > My colleague sent me a LyX file containing several .emf graphics. The file > compiles well at my office, where I work on a Windows 7 computer. However, > when I try to compile it at home (Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite) I get errors > such as: > Package pdftex.def Error: File `Nam