Am 27.08.2017 um 14:35 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>:
> 
> Am 27.08.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>:
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 08:14:57PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>> 
>>> ATM, I don’t have a solution for this problem. The inclusion of ImageMagick
>>> as part of the LyX bundle doesn’t look attractive. Much work and not a good
>>> system design. And definitively not possible for the LyX 2.3.0 release.
>> 
>> I wonder whether a home-made ImageMagick can help. The attached very small
>> program converts any image format known to Qt5 to the format specified by
>> the extension of the output file.
> 
> Thank you for your ideas… your hint regarding the change for #9778 was useful 
> too.
> I’m not 100% sure how it works now. (I have problems to test all these things,
> on my system are so much tools installed - it’s difficult to get a virgin 
> state).
> 
> After moving all SVG2PNG conversion tools away LyX presents the svgz icons on
> screen - I had expected it to fail because of the #9778 change. Is it only a
> „trick“ to force external conversion if possible?
> 
> I tried to make your proposal working and it looks not bad. ATM, I see the
> following open tasks:
> 1. It converts SVG but not SVGZ - should be possible to improve
> 2. It should be a console application like tex2lyx
> 3. If bundled with LyX it should considered as a fallback only
> 
> I can take care for 2 and 3. For 1 a hint or a solution would be fine.

Sorry, the problem 1 was my fault. The SVGZ file was not there as I tried
it to convert. If I type the proper file name it works. :-|

So, 2 and 3 are open tasks.

Stephan.

Reply via email to