Re: [LyXWin 1.3.6pre12] View (pdflatex) dies at graphic

[Paul A. Rubin]

Georg Baum wrote:

In the .tex file emitted to  
the temp directory by View->PDF (pdflatex) (or, presumably, by 
File->Export->PDF (pdflatex), the extension .pdf is omitted from the 
name of the embedded graphic file.  In constrast, the file produced by 
File->Export->LaTeX includes the extension.


That is intentional and should work. latex adds the missing extension and 
chooses from a number of formats the best suitable one, therefore we 
strip the extension.

Do you mean that if the exported .tex file calls for a graphic named 
'fig' (no extension), then pdflatex will automatically search for 
fig.pdf, fig.eps, fig.ppm, etc. in some order of preference?

IIRC this mechanism does not work anymore if the file name contains spaces 
(as is the case here). I thought that we handled that when adding space 
support, but have lost track. Angus probably knows more.

There are no spaces in the file name; they've been replaced with 
underscores.  There are spaces in the path, though.  The spaces in and 
of themselves don't seem to bother pdflatex; if I edit the .tex file in 
the temp directory, add the .pdf extension (but leave the spaces in the 
path), then run pdflatex manually, it works fine.

-- Paul