On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 04:54:03PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've started my work on the inline viewing of images for InsetGraphics, I
> > should mention that it is the very first time that I program for X
> > (directly that is, I played a bit with Gtk but on the highlevel side).
> >
> > The way I do the inline currently is as follows:
> >
> > I'll be converting the image file to XPM (with all mutilations required
> > like rotation resizing and such), this XPM file I load using
>
> If I understand correctly, the iamges are converted on disk to XPM images,
> and then the XPM files are loaded by LyX.
> This may be a problem as the XPM files can be huge
> (I think that in the current figure inset, the conversion is done in memory,
> and not on disk).
If the image is big enough to be a problem on disk, it will probably be a
problem in memory too.
insetfig (the current inset) converts using ghostscript to x11 display, I
can't figure what or how. I prefer the easy route for now, there will be a
lot of work anyhow.
--
Baruch Even
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