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From: "Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: xdvi slow preview
Hello all,
I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. When I have a document with several figures,
usually as ".eps" or ".jpg" images inserted in float figures, and I want
to preview it as DVI, it takes a lot of time to render (depending on the
number of figures) and sometimes it is really slow to appear the first
page of the document. But when I look at the different pages and there is
a figure in it, it takes also a lot of time to render it. In this way it
is really annoying to look at the document every time a change is made.
Is there a direct or indirect solution for this problem ?
Sometimes I use the rendering to a PDF file, but I don't like it because
it takes a lot of time to start the acroread program. The same to the
other preview options.
Thanks in advance.
I think, but am willing to stand corrected, that this is occuring for the
following reasons.
.dvi files do not contain any information about the figures apart from their
path. So when the dvi loads up it has to load the images separately when you
view a page. As such looking at page 2 will load the figures on page 2, but
then when you go to page 3 it has to load those figures, etc, etc......If
the figures are complicated this will take time. There is no solution to
this as whichever image file type you have the figures still need to be
loaded in and rendered each time you view a page.
As for compiling the pdf, this does contain all the figures from the outset,
but first they must be converted from .eps or .jpg to .pdf. In my experience
this takes a long time, again longer for complicated figures. The solution
to this one is to have all your figures as .pdf from the outset.
Hope this helps
Geoff
