On Dec 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Jerry wrote: > > 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
As an alternative to Stephen's suggestion, you could also add the following converter for PDF to PNG. In my preferences, I chose the "From format" as PDF (ps2pdf) and entered this code for "Converter": sips -s format png $$i --out $$o This uses the OS X built-in command sips instead of Ghostscript.
