Angus Leeming wrote: > > Actually, this isn't strictly true. > > Baruch decided to use the libXPM library as a default graphics loader that > will work with any gui library. So, it does make sense to get it working > properly. Obviously, this library loads only XPM files, hence the need for > the converters. > > Incidentally, the conversion process is slow because you're using > ImageMagik's convert, I bet. It's much much quicker if you use the netpbm > suite of converters.
Well, I have both installed, but some folks may have one or the other. How does lyx decide which to use? > xforms and qt2 and gnome can all load graphics themselves. The long term aim > is to use these. There'll still be a need for the conversion mechanism for > those esoteric graphics formats, but most of the common ones can be loaded > direct. > > > In this case choose "don't display" from graphic gui. OK, but it meant doing S&R with an editor through several lyx files to change display color to display none. It is just not feasible to bring up each image to change it. > > Angus is working on this LyX-displaying with scaling. > > Yes. And I'll probably also get the hooks in place to use either libXPM or > the gui's one graphics loader. You never know, things might turn out quite > nice! One hopes. For now, display none is my only viable option. I can live with that > I think that this is probably a better goal for 1.2 than doing the conversion > in the background. > > Hope this makes things clearer. > Much. Except for the reason old-graphics was dumped before new-graphics was functional -- maybe to force testers;) Thanks, Garst
