On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:20:53PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 04:54:03PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> > 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.
Available space on the HD is not the only issue here. Other issues
(even with smaller sized files) are:
1) Speed
2) Wear & tear of your HD :(
