Herbert Voss wrote:
The program "epstopdf" works often much faster than "convert".
huh? How should this work, when both uses ghostscript??
A good question. I exported once a LyX-document to pdf (pdflatex) with about 200 eps images. ImageMagick's convert (ImageMagick version 5.5.7) was slower.
But better forget my predication, because I tested it again and found out, that epstopdf version 2.4.1398.0 (from MiKTeX) uses MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.01 and convert of ImageMagick 6.0.7 uses AFPL Ghostscript 8.11.
It seems that ImageMagick has some problems when calling ghostscript. The generated PDFs are bigger and have a wrong crop box.
(I tested this by converting the image "tiger.eps" that comes with ghostscript.)
So I would suggest (for LyXWin) to use epstopdf instead of convert.
regards Uwe
