On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:17:56AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > 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.
Can't the bitmap data be passed to lyx via pipe, in an uncompressed form ?
