Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:58:26AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: >> John Coppens wrote: >> >> > Hi all... >> > >> > After some guesswork and a huge amount of luck, I found that the >> > font problem could be solved inverting the font dirs in >> > /usr/X11/lib/X11/XftConfig... Go figure... >> > >> > But then a very original one: One of the PNGs I included was >> > correctly read/saved by Gimp, but refused to be converted to PDF >> > (latex). I've saved this PNG if someone is interested. I rotated >> > the image, saved it again, and all was well. >> >> What route are you taking to generate the pdf? Are you going >> * lyx->latex-(latex)->dvi-(dvips)->ps-(ps2pdf)->pdf >> which requires that the png image is converted to eps format, or >> are you using the route >> * lyx->latex-(pdflatex)->pdf >> which can use the png file as-is? > > Or > > * lyx->latex-(latex)->dvi->(dvipdfm)->pdf
Perhaps I clouded the issue. The issue is what latex compiler is used, latex or pdflatex. The former accepts eps images only. The latter can handle either png or pdf images. -- Angus
