Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 17:42:23, schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:49:53PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 16:09:06, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > > <for...@lyx.org> > > > > 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. > > > > > > I think I now see what generates your confusion. If epstopdf fails, > > > pdftocairo is not even attempted, but the warning spokes about pdftocairo. > > > I am going to correct the warning message. > > > > > > > Thanks, works nice. > > > > Would you mind to have pdflatex instead of latex be the first try? > > We already have eps files at that point and I am reluctant about discarding > them straight away. There may be constructs that only work with postscript > (think of pstricks). However, I think I have solved this issue by detecting > if hyperref is used and in that case going directly the PDF route.
I like it.
> > For me it looks like the shorter chain.
> > pdflatex -> pdftocairo -> png
> > vs
> > latex -> dvipng -> epstopdf -> pdftocairo -> png
>
> The correct chains are
> pdflatex -> pdftocairo -> png
> vs
> epstopdf -> pdftocairo -> png
Hm, I believe to have seen calls to latex, dvips, dvipng, epstopdf, pdftocairo.
Probably fast fading (my) memory.
> The second chain is a bit slower only because each page is treated
> separately, while in the first chain a single pdf file is produced.
Kornel
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
