On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tommi Rintala wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2000, at 9:53, Juergen Vigna wrote:
>
> >
> > What version of lyx are you using? IMO it should be easy to add a
>
> I'm running 1.1.5 version of LyX.
>
> > patch so that if you don't use an extension on the filename .eps is
> > automatically added for the preview (with gs) and none for the LaTeX
> > output so that you can have preview (if you have the file with .eps)
> > and LaTeX is automatically able to load .eps or .png depending what
> > you want produce (dvips or dvipdf).
>
> This sounds really good. The reason why I have used the LaTeX function
> is that EPS images need to be rotated 90 degrees. But this could be
> done in Gimp.
>
> I remembered another thing; I got messages stating that pdflatex
> cannot determine the bounding box from PNG images. I set this by
> hand to includegraphics command. This can be done to manuals
> length under 20 pages. But when there's more pictures and more pages
> one wishes not to spend all day just checking bounding boxes.
>
> Any ideas?
To the best of my knowledge, and from the little bits of playing, with
pdflatex it worked with PNG images like a charm, it didn't need the
bounding box to be specified explicitly.
You might want to try it yourself.
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