On Wednesday 26 June 2002 9:17 am, David Kastrup wrote: > 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.
I don't anticipate adding png support to xforms will be toooo hard. What may be harder is getting it into a released version of the library, judging from the current lack of response to other patches I've thrown their way. Anyway, we /can/ load png images into LyX; we just use an intermediate conversion step first which is transparent to the user but will slow things down a little. Angus
