Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:15:53PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Thus I had to make a decision. Since > > metafile2eps is not part of LyX, I thought it is up to me what so > > support via the installer. At least until now nobody commented my > > third-party specific installer chan

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-03 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 30.11.2015 um 22:30 schrieb Georg Baum: > >> 1) ImageMagick has a raster image kernel, it would be a huge effort to >> add vector graphics capabilities, and I doubt that this is even a goal of >> the ImageMagick authors > > Well, it can convert from and to PDF and EPS via G

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.11.2015 um 21:39 schrieb Alex Vergara Gil: In Windows when you press Ctrl+C in an Office graphics you obtain an emf file in your pastebin, so when trying to place it in LyX you will be unsuccessful, so I always has to put it into mspaint and save it as png. So it would be a good idea to ha

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.11.2015 um 22:30 schrieb Georg Baum: 1) ImageMagick has a raster image kernel, it would be a huge effort to add vector graphics capabilities, and I doubt that this is even a goal of the ImageMagick authors Well, it can convert from and to PDF and EPS via Ghostscript libraries keeping th

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-01 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 28.11.2015 um 11:15 schrieb Georg Baum: > >> If there are problems with the installation then please ask on the list >> for help and opinions. > > I am the only Win developer here. My spare time is limited and the > installer consumes a lot of time. > The installer is there

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-12-01 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
In Windows when you press Ctrl+C in an Office graphics you obtain an emf file in your pastebin, so when trying to place it in LyX you will be unsuccessful, so I always has to put it into mspaint and save it as png. So it would be a good idea to have a native automatic transformation from emf to eps

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.11.2015 um 01:57 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: When I discovered LyX about ten years ago, I saved my Word 95 documents as rtf and used rtf2latex2e to convert them to latex so that they could be imported into LyX. The figures in the Word documents were separated out by rtf2latex2e into wmf files.

Re: [patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 30/11/2015 11:39 a.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: Interestingly I could not find a single emf file on my PC. I also never stumbled over this image format at work. I downloaded now one and it appears that no browser can display this file format. So I am wondering what program created emf natively.

[patch] use inkscape for EMF and WMF was: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 28.11.2015 um 11:15 schrieb Georg Baum: If there are problems with the installation then please ask on the list for help and opinions. I am the only Win developer here. My spare time is limited and the installer consumes a lot of time. The installer is there to provide a fully functional L

Re: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-28 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I did not remove them from LyX I only removed support for it from the > installer. If you like you can of course use it with LyX. it is only > that I am not responsible for this third-party program anymore. It made > much troubles because it is installed as a printer and this is

Re: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 27.11.2015 um 18:52 schrieb Georg Baum: Removal of utilities that where created by others who invested a lot of time should be discussed on the list first. I did not remove them from LyX I only removed support for it from the installer. If you like you can of course use it with LyX. it is

Re: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 01:07:26PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > > because it does a pure vector > > conversion, while ImageMagick converts to bitmap, so the quality of the > > result is lower. IMO, the removal should be reverted. > > Certainly if metafile2eps does vector conversion whereas Imag

Re: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/27/2015 12:52 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> commit 2bd2aa27811ab08d832f37354e3d2a6f0cbfda8c >> Author: Uwe Stöhr >> Date: Fri Nov 27 00:39:38 2015 +0100 >> >> installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly >> >> - also remove support metafile2eps because: >>

Re: [LyX/master] installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly

2015-11-27 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > commit 2bd2aa27811ab08d832f37354e3d2a6f0cbfda8c > Author: Uwe Stöhr > Date: Fri Nov 27 00:39:38 2015 +0100 > > installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly > > - also remove support metafile2eps because: > - it is outdated > - unnecessary third-party