Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:21 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:15:57PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > Considering the title of this thread and my complete lack of knowledge > > > > what this might be about, do you consider it likely that the screen > > > > shots for my WYSIWYG talk to be delivered at TUG2002 could need > > > > brushing up for the final version to be delivered in July? Or that > > > > maybe the Online demonstrations at the conference itself in September > > > > could benefit from a LyX 1.3+ demo? > > > > > > To early to tell. Give me a few days. > > > > Sure thing. Check out dvipng from the preview-latex CVS: antialiased > > bitmaps which you can request in daemon mode (page selection and > > stuff via pipe instead of command line). That should be hellishly > > fast. I'll get beaten up if you integrate it earlier than I can do, > > but to heck with it. > > Hellishly fast with the Qt2 frontend (when written!). The > xforms-based image loader still doesn't load png natively...
Well, I think that if you add an option into dvipng to write another graphic format as a fallback, nobody would complain. But I have to restate that lack of support of the only sensibly available free compressed bitmap format is something you should do something about. After all, it is about the only format that can be used sensibly for screenshots in PDFLaTeX. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
