On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 06:03:06PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have defined some converters to use plantuml, and they worked under > > 1.6.9 and also the display in the LyX document works, only creation of > > a pdf (or any other export) does not. The conversion works as follow: > > > > plantuml -> SVG > > SVG -> png for display > > SVG -> pdf for pdf > > > > When checking in the temporary folder, the file.svg is created, but I > > get an error message from LyX saying: > > > > #### > > An error occured while running: > > cat > > "filename" > > #### > > > > and the conversion chain is aborted, and pdflatex obviously gives an > > error message, as the filename.pdf is not created. > > > > The converters are as follow: > > > > plantuml -> SVG : cat $$i | java -jar ~/jar/plantuml.jar -tsvg -pipe > > $$o > > > > SVG -> PDF (pdflatex) : rsvg-convert -f pdf -o $$o $$i > > > > AS I said, the initial conversion is done (the file is there) even > > when I disable "show in LyX". > > > > Am I missing something here? > > Your converter works in 1.6.x but not in 2.0.x because pipes cannot be > used anymore. That explains - I thought something along this line. > If you don't use the native Windows version of LyX, you > I am under Linux - so I will just wrap this into a short script. Thanks a lot, Rainer > are lucky, as you may write a shell script for performing the conversion. > Instead, if you use the native Windows version, you simply lose because > also batch files don't work anymore in 2.0.x. In this case, your only > bet is recompiling LyX using the attached patch. > > -- > Enrico > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
