Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 18.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and hence this option worked with QT < 4.4. Svg support is not new, it is brought by the QtSvg4 library. AFAIK, we

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and hence this option worked with QT < 4.4. >>> Svg support is not new, it is brought by the QtSvg4 library. AFAIK, >>> we

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Conclusion: this is a change in Qt4.4 that svg file are loaded directly with the need to link to QtSvg! Hum... one should read: this is a change in Qt4.4 that svg file*s* are loaded directly with*out* the need to link to QtSvg! Abdel.

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and hence this option worked with QT < 4.4. Svg support is not new, it is brought by the QtSvg4 library. AFAIK, we don't link with this library. My guess is that your dist

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.06.08, TP wrote: > G. Milde wrote: > >The file contains svg format data. > > > >The image loader can load the following directly: > >bmp, gif, ico, jpeg, jpg, mng, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, svg, tif, tiff, xbm, > >xpm, Of these, LyX recognises the following formats: > >bmp,

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-18 Thread TP
G. Milde wrote: >The file contains svg format data. > >The image loader can load the following directly: >bmp, gif, ico, jpeg, jpg, mng, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, svg, tif, tiff, xbm, >xpm, Of these, LyX recognises the following formats: >bmp, gif, jpg, jpg, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, s

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '>' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following do

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread TP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > TP wrote: >> Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> >>> ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. >> >> Ok. >> >>> AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, >>> you might want to use '>' instead. >> >> Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, becau

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 17.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> On 16.06.08, TP wrote: >> of course the --export-area-drawing option can not have any effect if >> there is no export! > Right. >> My guess is, that svg support in the image loader is new in QT 4.4 and >> hence this option worked with QT

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 16.06.08, TP wrote: It also used to work for me from within LyX. However, a new test with LyX shows that it no longer works as expected for both display in LyX and PDF export. Starting LyX with the graphics conversion debug option, > lyx -dbg List of supported debug fl

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread G. Milde
On 16.06.08, TP wrote: > G. Milde wrote: > > which OS? > Linux Kubuntu 8.04. This should be not too different from my Debian/testing with TeXLive-2007. > > It would be nice if we could find the reason why --export-area-drawing > > works for some people while it does not for others. > It works per

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
TP wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, you might want to use '>' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does not work in command line: $ inks

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-16 Thread TP
G. Milde wrote: Thanks for you answer. > which OS? Linux Kubuntu 8.04. > It would be nice if we could find the reason why --export-area-drawing > works for some people while it does not for others. It works perfectly when used in command line. > So, how about > > 6/ remove the SVG=>PNG (and

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-16 Thread TP
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. Ok. > AFAIK, the semicolon is not for redirection but for command separation, > you might want to use '>' instead. Yes, I mean that I used the semicolon, because the following does not work in command line: $ inkscape $$i -

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-16 Thread G. Milde
On 14.06.08, Tribulations Parallèles wrote: > I use LyX 1.6 SVN. which OS? > At the end, you see "Correction 18/05/08: setting the figure size in > Inkscape's File->Document_Properties seems to be mendatory, while > the --export-area-drawing doesn't seem to do anything.". It would be nice if

Re: no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tribulations Parallèles wrote: So, contrary to what is said in the LyX Wiki, it seems that the important converter for the preview is svg=>PPM. ppm or png can be equally shown within LyX. I have tried to keep the orginal convertDefault.py, and defined a filter svg=>PPM with the following comm

no way to obtain an SVG preview of the correct size

2008-06-14 Thread Tribulations Parallèles
Hi us, I use LyX 1.6 SVN. I use sometimes Inkscape to make vectorial pictures, with the "external material" feature. To use Inkscape with LyX, a method is given here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages At the end, you see "Correction 18/05/08: setting the figure size in Inkscape's F