Am 28.11.2015 um 11:15 schrieb Georg Baum:
If there are problems with the installation then please ask on the list for
help and opinions.
I am the only Win developer here. My spare time is limited and the
installer consumes a lot of time.
The installer is there to provide a fully functional LyX, no matter if
installed with admin privileges or not. Metafile2eps was not available
without admin privileges.
Besides this, why should I invest my time to get this program working
while it is not part of LyX and not under development for 7 years now?
If emf conversion is important why is metafile2eps not developed
anymore. If the creator doesn't have time, he could contribute his code
to e.g. ImageMagick that this program is able to convert keeping the
vector information.
But to keeping the vector information is easy: Inkscape
Attached is a patch
To my knowledge, there was no development needed, and it simply works also
for newer windows versions, but Enrico can certainly tell more.
It never "simply" worked. It was not available for those who install LyX
without admin permissions and made troubles when LyX was uninstalled.
Yes, I can decide for myself, this is not the problem. My point is that it
is not up to you alone to decide that windows LyX users are no longer
offered a good quality emf->eps conversion,
With the attached patch this would be offered.
especially since emf is the
standard vector graphics format on windows.
Interestingly I could not find a single emf file on my PC. I also never
stumbled over this image format at work.
I downloaded now one and it appears that no browser can display this
file format. So I am wondering what program created emf natively.
regards Uwe
diff --git
"a/C:\\Users\\Usti\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\con8416.tmp\\configure-7aeab53-left.py"
"b/D:\\LyXGit\\Master\\lib\\configure.py"
index dcf34c9..16c9844 100644
---
"a/C:\\Users\\Usti\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\con8416.tmp\\configure-7aeab53-left.py"
+++ "b/D:\\LyXGit\\Master\\lib\\configure.py"
@@ -957,11 +957,17 @@ def checkConverterEntries():
\converter tgif png "tgif -print -color -png -o $$d $$i" ""
\converter tgif pdf6 "tgif -print -color -pdf -stdout $$i > $$o"
""'''])
#
- checkProg('a WMF -> EPS converter', ['metafile2eps $$i $$o', 'wmf2eps -o
$$o $$i'],
+ checkProg('a WMF -> EPS converter', ['metafile2eps $$i $$o', 'wmf2eps -o
$$o $$i', inkscape_name + ' --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui
--export-eps=$$o'],
rc_entry = [ r'\converter wmf eps "%%" ""'])
#
- checkProg('an EMF -> EPS converter', ['metafile2eps $$i $$o', 'wmf2eps -o
$$o $$i'],
+ checkProg('an EMF -> EPS converter', ['metafile2eps $$i $$o', 'wmf2eps -o
$$o $$i', inkscape_name + ' --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui
--export-eps=$$o'],
rc_entry = [ r'\converter emf eps "%%" ""'])
+ #
+ checkProg('a WMF -> PDF converter', [inkscape_name + ' --file=$$i
--export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=$$o'],
+ rc_entry = [ r'\converter wmf pdf6 "%%" ""'])
+ #
+ checkProg('an EMF -> PDF converter', [inkscape_name + ' --file=$$i
--export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=$$o'],
+ rc_entry = [ r'\converter emf pdf6 "%%" ""'])
# Only define a converter to pdf6 for graphics
checkProg('an EPS -> PDF converter', ['epstopdf'],
rc_entry = [ r'\converter eps pdf6 "epstopdf
--outfile=$$o $$i" ""'])
