Stefan Kostner wrote:
This means that the filenames of the eps files can be extremely long
causing tools like dvips to crash with either segfault or
for instance "dvips: ! out of string space".
Looks like a fundamental limitation. We don't add characters to the
path,
just replace them. If your path has more than PATH_MAX characters,
you've
lucked out.
So, why not using other filenames. Since those files are only of
temporary nature they could just be numberd, or a combination of
numbers and the real filename (without the full path), or only a
relative paths...?
My (not very convenient) workaround at the moment is to copy the
directory containing the project to the root of the filesystem for
conversion.
I am using lyx 1.3.5 on MacOSX and the fink tetex installation.
Then you are in luck, I think. Isn't MacOSX a unix OS? That means it
supports symbolic links So from your document directory:
$ ln -s /long/and/complex/path/to/image/directory images
Unfortunately this does not help.
Even if we use a symbolic link, the filename of the eps file that is
being generated for the latex run contains all characters of the full
absolute path. Any symbolic link is resolved for that operation.
So, the actual limitation is that all the images used in a lyx project
are not allowed to have a long pathname.
regards,
Stefan
