On 08/11/2014 02:45 AM, Jane Shevtsov wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu
<mailto:ru...@msu.edu>> wrote:
1. How are you generating the PDFs (pdflatex, dvipdfm, ...)?
I'm using pdflatex.
2. How are you configured to convert SVGs? Please check Tools >
Preferences
... > File Handling > Converters, look for the converter from SVG
to your
output format (e.g., "SVG -> PDF (graphics)" or "SVG -> PNG"), and
report
the contents of the "Converter" and "Extra flags" boxes. If you're
not sure
which one you're using, please report them all.
Here's what I found:
SVG -> EPS
Converter: inkscape --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui
--export-eps=$$o
No extra flags
SVG -> PDF (graphics)
Converter: inkscape --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui
--export-pdf=$$o
No extra flags
SVG -> PNG
Converter: inkscape --without-gui --file=$$i --export-png=$$o
No extra flags
Those settings seem to work fine for me (using Inkscape 0.48.4). I don't
know what's going on, but here are some options:
1. You could try adding "--export-background-opacity=0" to the converter
lines. That should not be necessary, but then you should not be seeing
black backgrounds.
2. You could install librsvg2-bin (and any dependencies) from
Canonical's repos, and use that instead of Inkscape. Once it is
installed, I believe that reconfiguring LyX will cause LyX to choose it
in preference to Inkscape. If not, I can supply the converter lines.
3. You could post one of the images causing problems to the list, in
case it's something peculiar to those images. (You might want to run the
conversion commands above against one of the images in a terminal and
see if one of them coughs up a result with a black background.)
Paul
