Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: > As Georg says. No pdflatex installed. > Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex > which will be able to handle your images as-is. (...) > Hope that the process is a little clearer. The moral? Install > ImageMagi

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-28 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 9:34 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > Hi Angus > > Thank you for you long and good answer. It's great to have such a > good mailinglist with contributers like you - a LyX developers! > > There is something I still do not understand 100%, but I'll have a > look at tomorrow. The

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:29:18AM +0100, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex > > which will be able to handle your images as-is. > > I am running SuSE Linux 9.0 but cannot find

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Georg Baum
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex >> which will be able to handle your images as-is. > > I am running SuSE Linux 9.0 but cannot find a rpm named "pdflatex". Does > anybody know

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:59, Andre Poenitz wrote: > With pdflatex you can use .png but no .eps natively, > with latex you can use .eps but no .png natively. I do not have pdflatex installed (I am going to) but still I am able to view PNGs inline in LyX douments and get an output using view->p

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: > Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex > which will be able to handle your images as-is. I am running SuSE Linux 9.0 but cannot find a rpm named "pdflatex". Does anybody know if it can be named something differ

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 19:34, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Use the "pdflatex" compiler to compile the latex file exported by lyx > > rather than the "latex" compiler. > > I was just about to ask you how to do that - but then sudde

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-23 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: > Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > >> In this case I do not use graphs. I am writing a manual and I am >> mostly inserting screenshots (taken with Ksnapshot and then >> inserted and scaled down in LyX). Are threre any reasos to use EPS >> (or other formats) insted of PNG in this case?

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-23 Thread Georg Baum
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > In this case I do not use graphs. I am writing a manual and I am mostly > inserting screenshots (taken with Ksnapshot and then inserted and scaled > down in LyX). Are threre any reasos to use EPS (or other formats) insted > of PNG in this case? No. The only thing you hav

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Monday 22 March 2004 09:47, Angus Leeming wrote: > Yes. PNG is a bitmap graphic format, so images saved as PNG do not > scale well. EPS is a vector graphic format although it can also > 'wrap' bitmap images. If you're using vector graphics (eg, using some > drawing package to create graphs) the

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: >> Use the "pdflatex" compiler to compile the latex file exported by >> lyx rather than the "latex" compiler. > > I was just about to ask you how to do that - but then suddenly it > worked. Strange. Being at it: Are there any problems using PNG > insteds of EPS or other? Y

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 21 March 2004 19:34, Angus Leeming wrote: > Use the "pdflatex" compiler to compile the latex file exported by lyx > rather than the "latex" compiler. I was just about to ask you how to do that - but then suddenly it worked. Strange. Being at it: Are there any problems using PNG insteds

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > How do I deal with PNG garphics in LyX? Use the "pdflatex" compiler to compile the latex file exported by lyx rather than the "latex" compiler. > I am writing a book and need to work with PNG graphics. I can insert > PNGs, but when trying to view the result (CTRL+d) I

PNG and LyX

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
How do I deal with PNG garphics in LyX? I am writing a book and need to work with PNG graphics. I can insert PNGs, but when trying to view the result (CTRL+d) I get: "Cannot convert image (not existing file?) No information for converting from png to esp". and then three red err