On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> 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 :(
Since I'm using external programs to do everything I need, I find it
easier to do everything by the disk, I could attempt to use pipes, but
then I'm not sure every program will be useable, for example it seems like
ImageMagick cannot output to stdout, just to a file.
I believe that this issue can be delayed to the next stage of
InsetGraphics, I'd rather deal with the burning issues like getting it to
show the inline images correctly with transparency and all the other
goodies than to spend time on optimizations.
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Baruch Even
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