I am having a terrible time trying to get LyX to handle .gif placement sensibly. Wherever my images are wider than they are long, LyX automatically rotates them so that they end up lengthways rather than the original widthways. OK says you... just use the Rotate option provided when you click on the image. When I do this what Lyx seems to be doing, consistently, is successfully rotating the image (270degrees so that it's now horizontal and right way up) BUT leaving a distance between the text *above* and *below* the image *identical* to when the image was incorrectly rotated... in other words the image now floats amidst a huge ream of empty space. OK says you... why no change the canvas size of all your images so that as LyX loads them in it doesn't rotate them? OK. But then of course there's loads of empty space underneath/above the image... so I try to *crop to bounds* and encounter another bug. I can get the .gifs nicely framed using crop, BUT it then refuses to align them on the page on ANY origin other than that starting in the middle of the page... in other words, my now nicely cropped and horizontal images begin in the middle of the page and run off the margins... I'm hopelessly stuck. I have hundreds of images, and hundreds of pages written in LyX. Stupidly, having noticed this problem months ago, I ignored the problem thinking it would be easy to sort out later. Is this a problem anybody else has encountered? Is there a bugfix for it? I'm using version 1.2.0 but it took me a while to configure just as I need it so I daren't move to the next version and risk messing up my thesis. Can anybody please help me?
Ben
