Just to make this clear to me: Is there any way now to insert a raster image via the
External Inset and scale down the resulting eps-file or can I just scale down the
raster image via -geometry and loose information?
Rainer Hoffmann
Baruch Even schrieb:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Rainer Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Two things about the new possibility to insert raster images (which is great!):
> > 1) I expected the menu entry to insert an raster image under Insert->... and not
> > under File->Insert.
>
> For that I have no answer, ask those who decided on the menu layout.
> Anyway you can change the menu layout yourself just edit the file
> INSTALL_DIR/share/lyx/ui/default.ui
>
> It's yours to do whatever you want :-)
>
> > 2) What I really miss are all the nice settings from the eps-figure: Width and
> > Heigth in relative and absolute values, and the rotation angle
>
> This is a side effect of the new and powerfull External Inset, this inset
> can be used to import almost any type of data into lyx, it was not
> intended (at least in its first iteration) to provide full support for
> graphics files so it doesn't have the resize and rotate options. You can
> manually convert your images to EPS and use the Inset->Figure to insert it
> as usual.
>
> In the next version (1.2.0) InsetGraphics is going to make its first
> (official) appearance and this will allow you to insert bitmap images.
>
> Possibly in a later revision InsetGraphics and InsetExternal will be
> joined to provide a capable inclusion mechanism that will handle
> everything.
>
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>
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