Nirmal Govind wrote:
>> There's nothing magic about this. You just need to define a
>> converter eps->pdf. The preferences dialog should make this
>> trivially easy.
>
> The converter is already defined.. it's epstopdf..
>
>> You could use Imagemagick's convert, Sebastian Rahtz's epstopdf or
>> even gs itself. Your call ;-)
>
> Well, there seem to be two problems:
> 1. My eps figure was in a different directory (i.e. not where the
> lyx file was) and it looks like epstopdf converts and keeps the pdf
> in that directory.. and pdflatex looks for the pdf file in the
> current directory .. is this true?
>
> 2. The main problem was that the pdf generated by epstopdf is messed
> up.. I get a message from epstopdf:
>
> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!
>
> And b'cos of this the resulting pdf file of my presentation does not
> open... and I tried viewing the pdf of the image file separately
> using xpdf - it's just blank... so I guess epstopdf doesn't like the
> eps figure..
>
> So now, for a solution - I converted the eps to pdf manually using
> convert, that cuts off a good 1 in on the right side of the figure..
> so I converted it to jpg instead and everything seems to be fine..
> I'm not sure why there's a problem with the eps figure - I generated
> it using Adobe Illustrator.. (and maybe that's it ;-)) ... is there
> a way I can specify that while running pdflatex, I want the eps
> images to be converted to jpg instead of pdf? Then I can define a
> converter for eps to jpg in lyx and all should be well I hope...
>
> Thanks,
> nirmal
You could try running your figure through GhostScript's epstoeps
utility. This will ensure that the eps file is well formed.
Unfortunately, it also converts it to a bitmap file.
As for the rest.
"pdflatex looks for the pdf file in the current directory". To be
honest, I don't know, but this sounds probable. Look at your latex
file: what are the '...' in the \includegraphics{...} command?
Angus
