Thanks, Rainer, for the suggestions. I did not find any commandline tool either. As the problem was restricted to only 11 files, I manually converted them to pdf (on my Windows machine) and urged my co-author not to use emf files anymore ;-)
Best regards, Jan On 24/08/15 10:31, "Rainer M Krug" <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: >Annaert Jan <jan.anna...@uantwerpen.be> writes: > >> My colleague sent me a LyX file containing several .emf graphics. The >>file >> compiles well at my office, where I work on a Windows 7 computer. >>However, >> when I try to compile it at home (Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite) I get errors >> such as: >> Package pdftex.def Error: File `Name_of_file.pdf¹ not found. >> Indeed, this file does not exist (Name_of_file.emf does exist). >> >> Also in the LyX editor the file is not previewed: it simply shows a box >> with: >> ³Name_of_file.emf >> Error converting to loadable format². >> >> I suspect something is going wrong with the converters, but I don¹t have >> any clue how to address this issue. And frankly, the commands of the >> converters that are defined in the Preference pane are pure gibberish to >> me. >> Perhaps somebody else has encountered the same issue and can share her >> solution? I¹m using LyX 2.1.4 on both computers. > >emf is a Windows graphics format for which imagemagik can not convert. > >You have two options: > >1) use e.g. Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) in wine / PlayOnMac > (https://www.playonmac.com/) to convert the images to a different > format. Irfan view works very nicely on a mac. > >2) if you find a commandline tool for Mac (I didn't find one - please > keep us posted if you find one) and define your own copier in LyX to > convert the emf files. > >Cheers, > >Rainer > > >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Jan Annaert >> >> > >-- >Rainer M. Krug >email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >PGP: 0x0F52F982
