On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly what happens and if there is platform-specific > behavior. To see the discussion I was referencing, see: > > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778 Thanks for the details. Clearly LyX is trying to render SVG without using conversion rules. In https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9778#comment:10 a work-around to force LyX to use the conversion rules is to remove a library file. I tried this on my Windows 10 (it's a DLL) and it breaks the GUI of LyX. Because SVG is a moving standard (1.1 is last official one and was released in 2011, 1.2 is still a draft, Tiny 1.2 exists as a separate standard, 2.x is still in draft mode, etc.), LyX users should have more control over how SVG is rendered with the tool they prefer. SVG is not like GIF or JPEG (yet). I see there was already a patch https://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/6bd5263405/lyxgit that was supposed to make this work. But from my experiences with 2.2.3 in Windows, it doesn't seem to be working (anymore). Would it be constructive to make a feature request in LyX to allow the option of bypassing native SVG rendering?
