* Lazy loading. Don't try and load the file till you try to draw it. * asynchronous conversion to a loadable format. * "simple" clipping, roation, scaling of the view in LyX.
The patch is at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/graphics.diff.bz2 It's 37kB in size. As far as I'm concerned, it's finished. Please apply. Angus