On Thursday 14 October 2004 6:18 pm, foofoofoo barbarbar wrote: You're using a graphics inset but can't use the pdflatex compiler. You need to define a XFig -> PDF converter. See the Edit->Preferences dialog.
> Yes, unlike the external_templates files I've seen on > the Net, the one that comes with this version does not > mention any conversions to PDF. Can I just use an > external_templates file from the Net, or are these > most likely for some devel version of LyX, and > unlikely to work in my case? Would this one work with > my version? > > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/DevelExternalTemplates/Template No, this won't work. This is from the external_templates file that will ship with LyX 1.4.x. I don't know who shoved it up on the wiki. Anyway, it won't work for several reasons: * the transformation command is hard-coded into the external_templates file in LyX 1.3.x. In LyX 1.4.x, the external inset uses the same 'converter' mechanism as is used by the graphics inset that you've been using. This gives you more flexibility. * the transformation of an 'external' file in LyX 1.3.x, defined in the external_templates file, knows nothing about the different LaTeX flavours. Thus, XFig is converted to EPS or to the PSTEX mix of EPS file and LaTeX file containing the text. That's fine if you use the latex compiler. However, the pdflatex compiler is unable to handle EPS figures. You could write your own PDFXFig template and place it in an external_templates file in your $HOME/.lyx directory. It would be identical to the XFig template that ships with LyX 1.3.x, but the LaTeX target would change to (something like) Format LaTeX Product "\\begin{picture}(0,0)\\includegraphics{$$Basename.pdf}\ \end{picture}\\input{$$Basename.pdftex_t}" UpdateCommand "python $$Sysdir/scripts/fig2pdftex.py \ $$FName $$Parameters" UpdateResult "$$Basename.pdf" Requirement "graphicx" FormatEnd You'd have to write fig2pdftex.py, analogous to fig2pstex.py, to handle the conversion. The important point is, however, that whilst this would work, it would have the same limitation as the existing XFig template. You could use it with the pdflatex compiler but not with the latex compiler. It would produce much nicer results than your existing solution of converting XFig -> EPS (from the graphics inset) if your figures contain text which you've marked with the 'special' attribute. * Final difference between external insets in LyX 1.3.x and 1.4.x. All those : TransformCommand Rotate RotationLatexCommand TransformCommand Resize ResizeLatexCommand Product "$$RotateFront$$ResizeFront\\input{$$Basename.pstex_t}$$ResizeBack$$RotateBack" The external inset in 1.4.x handles rotation, clipping and resizing of the image just like the graphics inset does. In fact, the only thing that it can't do that the graphics inset can handle is proper handling of compressed postscript images. Herbert will remember the pain that this caused us in coding up the graphics inset ;-) Hope that some of this is illuminating. Angus
