From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: EPS problem
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:13:48 -0500
John Hughes wrote:
1. ImageMagick is in the command path and LyX's path prefix.
2. When I convert the EPS file to PDF using the "convert" command, it
changes my vector graphic into a very low resolution bitmap image - which
is unsuitable for this purpose.
3. The temp directory contains both a copy of the EPS file and a PDF
version of it. However, the PDF version is a blank A4 page.
Thanks anyway - I do appreciate your help.
No problems. The poor quality conversion has me wondering if there's a
problem with Ghostscript. Imagemagick will use Ghostscript to convert
PS/EPS to PDF. Rather than repeat copious details here, I'll refer you to
the IM README.txt file (look for the item beginning "ImageMagick requires
Ghostscript software ..."). In particular, the sentence "If Ghostscript is
unavailable, the Display Postscript X11 extension is used to rasterize a
Postscript document ..." makes me wonder if Ghostscript is properly
installed and available on the command path (and whether it's up-to-date --
IM wants GS 8.10, although I presume there's an implicit 'or later').
/Paul
So am I to understand that the following sequence of events should work:
1. Export an EPS vector graphic
2. Insert the EPS vector graphic into a LyX document
3. Export the LyX document to PDF using pdflatex
4. Get a PDF file with a nice vector graphic in it?
I just want to make sure that we're not talking at crossed purposes.
Thanks again
John
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