Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

[Staffan Ringbom]

In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that could
be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures seems to be
a bad mix.  Is a conversion to eps files at the moment
the best  strategy?  Probably yes in the short run?




Roland Krause wrote:

> Great, finally someone to pick this up.
> If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very
> detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As
> far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since
> this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle figures in jpeg and png
> for example just fine assumed that you can use the graphicx  package.

YES!  YES! YES!


> To
> represent the figure on the screen you need to convert it to a bitmap
> sooner or later and that's what ghostscript is doing now. Again, all
> this isn't really necessary but as it looks like the current code needs
> a fundamental rewrite.
>
> Roland

Agree with Roland.


Staffan

P.S. Like 1.1.5. It is a good release! Thanks.