Am 25.08.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:40:12PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: >>> Den 24. aug. 2017 18:20, skrev Uwe Stöhr: >>>> >>>> Please do not remove mages, this is in my opinion not the right way. The >>>> right way should always be to set up a fully functional LyX during the >>>> installation >>> >>> I agree. >>> Now, if SVG support isn't possible on all platforms, then there is the >>> alternative of converting the imagery we use in the docs. I believe PNG is >>> always supported. >> >> Note that native SVG display has been disabled to fix #9778 and now >> a converter is explicitly required. So, another possibility would be >> reverting the above fix. > > Hmm... Now that I actually read this thread I understand that it is a > matter of converting SVG to PDF and not of displaying SVG on screen. > So, this case is different from #9778. Sorry for the noise.
The change of the toolbar icons from PNG to SVG was a good move for HiDPI display. But the use of SVG in documents is problematic, as I now understand. SVG is not well supported (apart from the Webbrowser Safari) on Mac. As I've learned it isn’t even predictable how a SVG-file is rendered. Most renderers don’t implement the full standard and there are multiple standards. ATM, I don’t have a solution for this problem. The inclusion of ImageMagick as part of the LyX bundle doesn’t look attractive. Much work and not a good system design. And definitively not possible for the LyX 2.3.0 release. I tend to give Helges proposal a plus. Stephan
