Hi, I am posting my message on this list, as I would like to know more about the internal image processing of LyX.
As per my understanding, I define two converters for SVG files: 1. SVG => PNG, as png files can be rendered by the QT-GUI widgets. 2. SVG => EPS, as EPS is natively supported by LaTeX. Further I define SVG to be a vector format, so that LyX tries to convert the SVG files to some known, LaTeX compatible format (in this case EPS). So far so good, my particular problem is that I have an SVG file with a screenshot (and some markers). When I convert it manually to EPS and have a look at the EPS file, it's perfect. But in the resulting PDF file that gets rendered by LyX the screenshot is very pixelized. It looks as if there was some JPG-compression with a compression quality level below 30. I tried to add another converter SVG => PDF (I tried each PDF format) and deleted the SVG=>EPS one. Inkscape creates PDF files of very high quality if I do it by hand. But now the LyX-output PDF file shows only a white figure. Okay I thought, maybe exporting my document to LaTeX (pdftex) could help get me some insights. When exporting, a pdf file for my image get created, but it's pure white?! Why is that so, what didn't I understand w.r.t. the image handling of LyX? What can I do about the bad image quality? Regards and thanks Dominik
