On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:27:04PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> * Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010728 19:22]:
> > When using pdflatex, why eps files are converted to PNG and not to PDF ?
>
> I was told once over lyx-users that PNG is handled better than PDF.
There was a bug in pdflatex with including PDF files:
I think that the problem only occurred with PDF files generated from eps
using epstopdf, and the eps file was generated from a bitmap image (example
platypus.eps).
However, this bug had been fix.
Furthermore, if you have a bitmap image you can insert it to the lyx file,
and then you won't have a problem when using pdflatex.
> Besides converting to PDF will require an extra step, and I'm not sure
> that netpbm can do PDFs at all.
No, conversion to pdf is done in one step using epstopdf.
> I'm doing whatever is sufficient, if converting to PDF is better I'll
> check what I can do to improve my conversion practice. Currently it is
> hardcoded to be EPS for latex and PNG for pdflatex.
For pdflatex:
jpg,png -> inserted without conversion
eps -> pdf
everything else -> png
