On 2017-09-20, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:20:04PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Shouldn’t the Linux packagers >> made aware of the dependency of LyX on Inkscape? On Linux, we have working alternatives to Inkscape (rsvgbased). > I don't know. Currently, the "lyx" package on Ubuntu lists "inkscape" as > a "suggested" package. We should tell them to "upgrade" the dependency on an SVG->PDF converter from "suggested" to "recommended" (because now more LyX documents include SVG images). >> (Yes, I know, on Linux it would work without it by using convert. But >> this isn’t good - an error should be raised on Linux too. :) Actually, it is intended that even the onboard QT converter is used as fallback (see Jürgens post). Maybe we need to fix this (with Mac only?) and possibly we can add a warning (no error) in case an SVG is converted to raster image. Günter
