On Friday 12 July 2002 9:12 am, David Kastrup wrote: > Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > > >>Statistics: > > >>285 numbered equations > > >>732 pages in the metrics file > > >>57 MBytes for the ppm-files > > > > > > Experiment with gs -sDEVICE=pnmraw. Does that reduce disk footprint > > > much? > > > > yes, up 14.5 MBytes > > This is still ridiculous. Get this PNG support going. Of course, > this also explains why previews got slower when color support got > added: I/O time. ppm files take up three times more space than pgm, > and when you leave off antialiasing, you get pbm, at another factor > of 8 in file size. I/O time for 57MBytes is far from trivial. > > Get this PNG support going.
David, I work on LyX for fun. I do not have an infiinite amount of time to spend on it. Given the options of writing something reasonable for LyX or learning how to write a new loader for an external library, guess which one I choose? On a more positive note, John Levon has an almost working Qt frontend. That will "just work" with PNG. Angus
