On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:30:15PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 15:17:00, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > <for...@lyx.org> > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:06:48PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 14:57:29, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > > > <for...@lyx.org> > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:30:47PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 13:56:38, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > > > > > <for...@lyx.org> > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:34:33PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 13:27:12, schrieb Enrico > > > > > > > Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:22:14PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > > > > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 12:33:00, schrieb Enrico > > > > > > > > > Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> > > > > > > > > > > lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py > > > > > > > > > > b/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What was wrong with my patch? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I posted it on the bug tracker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, I don't know what you are talking about. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I mean Ticket #6369. Sorry. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah, that one... I had forgotten it. As I already said, if you > > > > > > discuss > > > > > > these things on the tracker, they risk to go unnoticed and the > > > > > > probability of stepping on each other toes becomes high. > > > > > > > > > > > > That said, the patch I committed is more general. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > OK, > > > > > your newest commit produces now plenty of warnings > > > > > > > > > > Warning: pdftocairo failed on page 1, file lyxpreviewP29083_legacy.001 > > > > > ... > > > > > Warning: pdftocairo failed on page 31, file > > > > > lyxpreviewP29083_legacy.031 > > > > > Warning: Now trying to obtain failed previews through pdflatex > > > > > > > > > > if testes with doc/Math.lyx > > > > > > > > Yes, that's normal. It first tries to convert the postscript files > > > > generated by dvips. If that fails (for the math manual the responsible > > > > for the failure is hyperref), it goes through the pdflatex route. > > > > You can avoid those warnings by setting the default output format for > > > > the document to some pdf type. Then, dvips is not even attempted. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, OK, but that is our official file. And it takes now long to process > > > the previews. > > > Why is pdftocairo trying to interpret PS files? According to 'pdftocairo > > > --help' it expects PDF file > > > as input. > > > > And it gets a PDF file using epstopdf. The reason it is about 2 times slower > > is that it first tries the postscript route. However, the real culprit for > > the slowness is hyperref. Take it away and the conversion will be lightning > > fast. > > > > It does not. I killed 'python -tt > /usr/local/lyx2.2/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py' while it was showing the > warnings, > to be sure the files did not change in between. > > e.g. > Warning: pdftocairo failed on page 5, file lyxpreviewLE3215_legacy.005 > ... > #cd /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.DgDeDaMd3215/lyx_tmpbuf0 > #file lyxpreviewLE3215_legacy.006 > lyxpreviewLE3215_legacy.006: PostScript document text conforming DSC > level 2.0 > > Am I misinterpreting something?
Please, add "-v" to the converters and watch the output. If you are still not convinced, rename the pdftocairo binary as pdftocairo.save and then watch ghostscript failing in the same way. If you are still not convinced, I give up. -- Enrico
