Am 13.09.2017 um 09:13 schrieb Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org>: > > Stephan Witt wrote: >> BTW, I didn???t say the installation of ImageMagick is useless. My point is: >> LyX shouldn???t present error messages on preview of the documentation as a >> PDF-document. That???s why I???m trying to establish a conversion path from >> LyX+SVG-icons to PDF-output via PNG. I don???t know how to do this. I >> suspect convertDefault.py should simply be avoided if there is no usable >> ???convert??? or ???magick??? program is available. > > I know very little of Mac world. How harsh from us is to request users to > install imagemagick on their own? > Are there some binaries available or we effectively ask for compilation, > which I understand is no way for generic user.
I don’t know of a bundled ready-to-use solution for imagemagick on Mac. > I tend to agree with Scott that silent lossy conversion of svg into bitmap > does not sound as something we should do strive for and as a user I would be > happier getting error and warning that something proper is missing in my > installation and fix that first. But AFAICS the output of imagemagick is a bitmap anyway. So we should talk about Inkscape or rsvg-convert? I fear the detection of Inkscape on Mac is not correct. The python scripts assume the binary is inkscape if not on windows. And rsvg-convert is problematic too (see Günters mails). Looks like the next challenge… Stephan
