John Pye wrote: > This is what puzzled me: I expected to see a SVG->xxxxxx converter in my > LyX preferences menu. But there is none shown. Nevertheless LyX seems to > know what to do with my SVG document; it just happens to do it wrong.
LyX calls the "convert" utility from imagemagick for unknown formats. This one is used here. > If the SVG->whatever converter is not shown in my preferences menu, then > where to do the settings for it live? Maybe there's a default embedded > in the compiled code, or something like that? > > Also the SVG format is not shown in the File Formats list. Then you should add it and an appropriate converter, too. > Also, don't know if this related: on the console, I see: >> xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are: >> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions >> Directory missing fonts.dir >> Incorrect font server address or syntax >> Unable to add font path. You can ignore that. >> pnmcrop: The image is entirely background; there is nothing to crop. >> pnmcrop: Error reading magic number from Netpbm image stream. Most >> often, this means your input file is empty. >> convert: unable to read font >> `/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/arial.ttf'. >> Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy > > Is it possible that NetPBM is being used to handle SVG via some kind of > fallback? Yes, that is possible. Look up the imagemagick documentation. Georg
