Paul Johnson wrote: > Well, this seems like a serious problem, not one where we should say > "there's nothing to do".
I did not say that. I said that I don't see a solution that will work in all cases. > I'd suggest that LyX SHOULD NOT offer to export documents to pdf when > they have eps files in them, or at least users need a VERY BIG warning > because a lot of users will get in trouble unless they proof read > their output very carefully. A bug of this sort, which crops up after > a project is finished and printed out and presented to > students/teachers, and appears only later in pdf output intended for > the Web, is very serious. This is a disadvantage of the modular converter architecture. Since LyX has no control over the used tools, bad things can happen. There is a similar problem with bitmap images: If you specify a 50% scale, it entirely depends on the converter how big the image will be in the output, since it needs to assume a certain resolution (pixels per cm). > If tex2pdf works, couldn't LyX incorporate that (its GPL, right?) and > cut all usage of the other converters? I don't know how good tex2pdf is, but you can easily create a new pdf4 format and define tex2pdf as a converter tex->pdf4 yourself. Any tex2pdf experts please tell: Should we do that by default in LyX? Any possible problems? Georg
