On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Murat Yildizoglu
> <murat.yildizo...@u-bordeaux4.fr> wrote:
>> Scott, are you sure that Lyx uses EPS for showing the graphics on the
>> screen? I have had the impression that it was rather using a bitmap format
>> like PNG.
>
> Not all formats are converted to .eps. If you insert a .png it will
> not be converted to a .eps. I agree that in the end to display on a
> screen a bitmap is more useful but I think that Qt takes care of that.
> If you go to Insert > Graphics and choose a .pdf, at least on Ubuntu,
> it is converted to a .eps. You can see this by starting LyX with lyx
> -dbg graphics and looking at the output.
>
> Below is some useful information from the output. Note all the way at
> the bottom "from_format: pdf6
> to_format: eps"
>
<snip>
>
> Scott
Scott, I ran LyX with the -dbg graphics command and got the following output.
Not sure what to make of it but there seems to be a lot of complaining. FWIW I
ran it again with spaces removed from path names and got the same result.
Jerry
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MBPro:bin jerrybauck$ cd
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS
MBPro:MacOS jerrybauck$ ./lyx -dbg graphics
Setting debug level to graphics
Debugging `graphics' (Graphics conversion and loading)
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: agr
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: eps
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: eps
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: eps
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
Format.cpp (147): will guess format from file extension: svg -> svg
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: eps
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
File type not recognised before EOF!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
insets/InsetGraphics.cpp (145): Token: 'filename'
insets/InsetGraphics.cpp (145): Token: '\end_inset'
support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents)
Couldn't find a known format!
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (378): [CacheItem::Impl::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
with displayed filename:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (385):
The file contains pdf format data.
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (183):
The image loader can load the following directly:
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): bmp,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): gif,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): ico,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): jpeg,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): jpg,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): mng,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): pbm,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): pgm,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): png,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): ppm,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): svg,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): svgz,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): tga,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): tif,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): tiff,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): xbm,
frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (190): xpm,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (91): LyX recognises the following image formats:
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): bmp
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): gif
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): jpg
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): jpg
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): pbm
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): pgm
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): png
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): ppm
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): svg
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): tiff
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): xbm
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (97): ,
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (98): xpm
graphics/GraphicsCache.cpp (100):
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to bmp
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to gif
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pbm
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pgm
graphics/GraphicsLoader.cpp (116): LoaderQueue: waking up
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (378): [CacheItem::Impl::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
with displayed filename:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (385):
The file contains pdf format data.
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to bmp
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to gif
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pbm
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pgm
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (378): [CacheItem::Impl::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
with displayed filename:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (385):
The file contains pdf format data.
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to bmp
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to gif
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pbm
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pgm
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (378): [CacheItem::Impl::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
with displayed filename:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (385):
The file contains pdf format data.
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to bmp
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to gif
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pbm
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pgm
graphics/GraphicsLoader.cpp (90): LoaderQueue: 1 items in the queue
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (408): Converting it to format.
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (378): [CacheItem::Impl::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
with displayed filename:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
support/FileName.cpp (945): Recognised Fileformat: pdf
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (385):
The file contains pdf format data.
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to bmp
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to gif
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to jpg
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pbm
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (340): Unable to convert from pdf to pgm
graphics/GraphicsConverter.cpp (127): Converter c-tor:
from_file:
/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure A/Temp
for sine random process Davenport.pdf
to_file_base:
/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/CacheItem.u18090
from_format: pdf
to_format: png
graphics/GraphicsConverter.cpp (264): build_script ...
graphics/GraphicsConverter.cpp (376): ready!
graphics/GraphicsConverter.cpp (142): Conversion script:
--------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os, shutil, sys
def unlinkNoThrow(file):
''' remove a file, do not throw if an error occurs '''
try:
os.unlink(file)
except:
pass
infile = "/Applications/Words/LyXOuterFolder/MyLearningDocuments/Dump Me/Figure
A/Temp for sine random process Davenport.pdf"
outfile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.pdf"
shutil.copy(infile, outfile)
os.chdir("/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/")
infile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.pdf"
infile_base =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090"
outfile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.eps"
outdir = os.path.dirname(outfile)
if os.system(r'pdftops -eps -f 1 -l 1 ' + '"' + infile + '"' + ' ' + '"' +
outfile + '"' + '') != 0:
unlinkNoThrow(outfile)
sys.exit(1)
if not os.path.isfile(outfile):
if os.path.isfile(outfile + '.0'):
os.rename(outfile + '.0', outfile)
import glob
for file in glob.glob(outfile + '.?'):
unlinkNoThrow(file)
else:
sys.exit(1)
unlinkNoThrow(infile)
infile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.eps"
infile_base =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090"
outfile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.png"
outdir = os.path.dirname(outfile)
if os.system(r'convert ' + '"' + infile + '"' + ' ' + '"' + outfile + '"' + '')
!= 0:
unlinkNoThrow(outfile)
sys.exit(1)
if not os.path.isfile(outfile):
if os.path.isfile(outfile + '.0'):
os.rename(outfile + '.0', outfile)
import glob
for file in glob.glob(outfile + '.?'):
unlinkNoThrow(file)
else:
sys.exit(1)
unlinkNoThrow(infile)
fromfile = outfile
tofile =
"/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/CacheItem.u18090.png"
try:
os.rename(fromfile, tofile)
except:
try:
shutil.copy(fromfile, tofile)
except:
sys.exit(1)
unlinkNoThrow(fromfile)
--------------------------------------
support/ForkedCalls.cpp (495): ForkedCallQueue: waking up
graphics/GraphicsLoader.cpp (127): LoaderQueue: I'm going to sleep
Error: /syntaxerror in (bin obj seq, type=128, elements=1, size=6917, non-zero
unused field)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop
1909 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop
1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1171/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:83/200(L)--
--dict:67/75(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 74159
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Error: /syntaxerror in (bin obj seq, type=128, elements=1, size=6917, non-zero
unused field)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop
1909 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop
1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1171/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:83/200(L)--
--dict:67/75(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 74159
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: Postscript delegate failed
`/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.eps':
No such file or directory @ error/ps.c/ReadPSImage/833.
convert: no images defined
`/var/folders/5r/0qcw1v_r8xjdqm00r6by9zy00000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.L18090/gconvert0.W18090.png'
@ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044.
support/ForkedCalls.cpp (504): ForkedCallQueue: I'm going to sleep
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (263): Image conversion failed.
graphics/GraphicsCacheItem.cpp (273): Unable to find converted file!
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