On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Buonopane <sbuon...@bucknell.edu> wrote:
> Try the solution given here… > http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fixing_pdf_graphics_in_lyx.php > which creates a direct conversion from pdf to png. > > It solved a related problem for me in the past where the conversion through > eps subtly changed the graphics dimensions making on screen cropping near > impossible. Thanks, Stephen! That has fixed the problem. There remain some unanswered questions. It looks like the converter pdftops is broken, at least on my machine. Your fix bypassed it, and elsewhere in this thread I reported that a manual conversion created an EPS file that was invalid. Is this a known problem? Since PDF is truly a native file format on OS X, it seems that your fix should be incorporated into LyX permanently because OS X users are trying to paste PDFs into LyX very frequently. Have you suggested this fix to the developers? Jerry > > > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:00 AM, Jerry wrote: > >> I am unable to insert PDF image files into LyX 2.0.6 on OS X 10.8.5. When I >> try to do this, in the area where the graphic would be displayed, I first >> see the message "Converting to loadable format" and then "Error converting >> to loadable format." The name of the file is then displayed but not the >> image. >> >> I am trying this in a new LyX document. The graphic is a simple plot saved >> from Mathematica in several file formats. Of those other formats, I am able >> to successfully insert bmp, eps, gif, jpg, png and tiff. (svg displays >> incorrectly in LyX as a black rectangle even though it is displayed >> correctly in other viewers.) >> >> I thought PDF was a "native" format for LyX, so I don't understand why it is >> trying to convert the PDF file into anything. Have I set a preference to >> something stupid? >> >> Jerry >> >
