On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Georg Baum
<georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Maria Gouskova wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Georg Baum
>> <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>> Maria Gouskova wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is Mac OS 10.8.5, LyX 2.1.4. I suspect I need to define a
>>>> converter in Preferences/File handling, but am not having much luck
>>>> finding the answer anywhere.
>>>
>>> Correct. If pdftops is in the path, then LyX should automatically define
>>> a converter
>>>
>>> pdftops -eps -f 1 -l 1 $$i $$o
>>>
>>> for conversion from PDF (Graphics) to EPS. This one works fine for me
>>> with your test file. Which converter do you have configured for PDF
>>> (Graphics) to EPS conversion?
>>>
>>
>> I didn't have one defined by default for PDF(graphics) at all. When I
>> added a PDF(graphics) to EPS converter, it defaulted to:
>>
>> python -tt $$s/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -c big5 $$i > $$o
>>
>> Which still produces an aliased PDF.
>>
>> I tried defining it your way, but it seems that pdftops is not
>> available on my setup. LyX throws up a non-specific error.
>
> Then you need to install pdftops and either put the executable in a
> directory which is listed in the PATH environment variable, or define the
> converter using the absolute path to the installed pdftops (e.g. if the
> executable is located in /opt/xpdf/bin/pdftops, the converter would read
>
> /opt/xpdf/bin/pdftops -eps -f 1 -l 1 $$i $$o
>
> ). You can download a binary from http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html,
> but since I am not a Mac expert I do not know if there are better ways to
> install it.
>
>> I can't debug this properly since I am away from my other machine,
>> which has Mac OS 10.9x and (as far as I recall) does not have this
>> problem. Could be a MacTeX version difference? Or just OS-specific?
>
> Probably not MaCTeX speicfic. My guess would be that on the other machine
> either pdftops or ps2eps (from ghostscript) is installed and found by LyX.
> BTW, pdftops is better than pdf2ps according to
> http://stefaanlippens.net/pdf2ps_vs_pdftops and also my own experience.
>
>
> Georg
>
Okay, thanks--I probably won't do this since I have found a workaround
for my original problem, and the figures and trees all come out
looking good now. I don't usually use ps2pdf anyway, it was only
because of xyling's peculiarity.
By the way, if anyone stumbles upon this discussion in the future, the
solution was to edit the xyling.sty file as follows:
Original:
\RequirePackage[color,all, dvips]{xy}
Change to:
\RequirePackage[color,all]{xy}
This will take away the ability to create color branches in a tree,
which is probably not a big loss. I can't remember ever seeing colored
branches in a published linguistics paper.
