I do agree! More than this for me it would be a very useful feature if one
were able to export directly to pdf; say, via File -> Export -> as PDF.
So far I used to export the file as postscript and after it "ps2pdf" it.
It works pretty well, but the other one would be more comfortable :-)
Regards,
Stephan
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> Following the very useful ideas already given in the list,
> I began writing LaTeX stuff to be able to create pdf
> as well as dvi from the .tex source (mostly to deal
> correctly with bitmapped vector-like images, screen captures
> mostly).
>
> So in LaTeX I can easily shift from one compilation to the other by
> - wiping out the .eps extension in the \includegraphics commands,
> - setting an pdftex option to the class.
>
> The commutation from latex to pdflatex is controlled in the lyxrc file,
> It would be nicer to have a « View PDF » item in the File menu,
> which would add the required pdftex option on the fly.
>
> In addition, the figure rendering is lost for
> jpeg, png or pdf, so that a (low quality) eps
> of these is needed for the sake of lyx interface.
> It would be nicer as well if the figure inclusion code
> dropped the .eps suffix, not needed by graphicx
> in plain latex compilation.
>
> In fact, it is very easy to write a perl script which
> pdflatexes the exported tex file, adding the pdf tex
> option and filtering out the extensions, but
> it's YAPF (Yet Another Perl Filter) for a function which
> would be easy to implement...
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre
>
>
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