Hi Jerry, I heard some years ago from a developer that Apple was planning to kill Linkback at one point in the future. Maybe it has been already done. Have you checked it? I was only using it to connect Eazydraw with Lyx and, if I remember well, it's developer has announced me that he would stop investing time on it because of these perspectives (we -well Uwe in fact, I was just proposing it :-) - were trying to ameliorate Linkback support in Lyx at that time, but these perspectives were not encouraging. I have stopped using it at that point.
Murat Le samedi 5 avril 2014, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> a écrit : > I have never been able to get Linkback to work with LyX. (It's an OS X > thing.) The usual method is once an object is pasted into the target > application (LyX in this case), double-clicking opens the object in its > originating program for editing; Saving there after editing then > automatically updates the object back in the target program. > > Of course, double-clicking the object in LyX opens up the LyX: Graphic > dialog box instead. So one would think that control-clicking to get the > contextual menu and then selecting Edit Externally... would work, but > nothing happens, not even a report of an unavailable editor. > > > What works: > > The Edit Special -> Paste as Linkback PDF menu is available when there is > a Linkback object on the clipboard. > > Doing such a paste causes an image to appear in the LyX window. > > The image is associated with a LyX-related file with a .linkback extension. > > Examining the contents of this .linkback file shows that it is a PDF with > some extra information after the %%EOF line that seems to relate to the > originating program. > > There is an LyX LFUN, paste, which has a param, linkback. > > > What doesn't work: > > There is no way to re-open the originating program to edit the object. > > There is no information in the documentation or the wiki other than > "Linkback has been implemented." > > Jerry -- *Prof. Murat Yildizoglu* Note: Please use the following address as such UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) MURAT YILDIZOGLU 16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT CS 50057 33608 PESSAC CEDEX FRANCE Bureau : E-331 mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr web: yildizoglu.info
