On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > Hi Georg, > > > > While we're at it, can we add similar converters (for both pdfcrop and > > 150dpi) for the ps2pdf path? In some instances, like when using PSTricks, > > users must pass by this path to obtain the final PDF. If it's not onerous > > for our menus, it may be worth adding converters to cover this use case. > > This is possible (my new converter script can eat ps files as well). > Unfortunately this requires yet another pdf format (otherwise we'd get an > ambigous conversion path: > > lyx -> tex (pdflatex) -> pdf (pdflatex) -> 150dpi pdf > lyx -> tex (standard) -> ps -> pdf (ps2pdf) -> 150dpi pdf > > The converter machinery can't cope with that yet. Do we want an additional > 150 dpi pdf format? If yes, I'll add it. > > Nope, not sure about that. I guess we should reconsider this when/if we get complaints from users. Regards, Liviu PS I still think an overhaul of the converter schemes would be awesome for such use-cases, to ensure that there are no accidental conversion paths. > > Georg > > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
