On Monday 08 July 2002 10:24 am, Juergen Vigna wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > On Monday 08 July 2002 10:05 am, Juergen Vigna wrote: > >>Andre Poenitz wrote: > >>>Yes. I am still unable to read some documentation containing lots of > >>>screenshots created with 1.1.6fix4 with neither 1.2.0 nor 1.3.0cvs. > >> > >>IMO you're mixing stuff here. InsetGraphics right now still starts > >>to convert the image when it should be displayed and that is what > >>you see as delay. What we were talking about is if you already _have_ > >>the converted image and only have to load and display it! > > > > Yes. Unfortunately if I have 1000 equations in a thesis then loading > > them all > > > takes a significant chunk of time. Minutes. > > > > I really like Lars' idea of a separate thread, especially if we > > combine it > > > with an intelligent queue so we can send off 40 equations or so at a > > time. > > _PLEASE_ enlighten me here. Are you talking about _loading_ or about > _converting_ or maybe about both? I think we should make a distinction > about _convert_ an image and _load/draw_ and image.
Just loading. The preview code will gather all the latex snippets together and send them off as a forked process to convert to X image files of PPM format. LyX (xforms) can load these natively. It is this loading process that takes time for 1000 equations. Hence Lars' idea of a thread. Angus
