Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 14:39 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > I disagree with the > > recommendation to use pdf images for pdf output, because other formats > > would slow down the workflow. > > When I want to compile a document with e.g. 100 GIF-images to PDF it takes about 10 minutes until > they are converted and I see the PDF result.
Therefore I implemented the converter cache. Another alternative would be to use the netpbm family of converters for bitmap images instead of imagemagick. The last time I measured the difference (about 2-3 years ago) they were about 10 times faster than imagemagick, and used less memory. I don't know if that is still true or not. > I did not only recommend to use PDF but also PNG and > JPG. PDF is recommended as vector format. I think you misunderstood me. If you are creating images with some paint program that can work on png images then of course you should use png. But if you create figures with a program that can only create gif, not png, then it is better to include the gif images and let LyX handle the conversion, instead of manually convert these images. The idea is to always include the source file and not a derived file, since this makes changes easy, and in contrast to humans LyX does not forget to convert an image (unless there is a bug - but I don't know of any). Georg
