>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Wrong conversion of SVG for LyX inline display? >>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:38:30 +0200 >> >>Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I work with LyX 1.4.1 on OpenSuSE 10.1. And I use inkscape 0.43-20 to >>> create some sketches. >>> >>> As it was some days ago discussed on the list, I created a conversion >>> definition SVG->EPS defined as "inkscape -E $$o $$i" as wells as one for >>> SVG->EPS as "inkscape -e $$o $$i". >> >>I guess you mean SVG->PNG as "inkscape -e $$o $$i"? >> >>> In principal this works find, but with some files (I haven't found out the >>> system, yet) an entire page (with the drawing placed like in inkscape) is >>> displayed in LyX -- but LyX should only display the drawing and not the >>> page. >>> >>> DVI and PDF output are fine -- it' s just about the representation in LyX. >>> >>> Can anybody tell me why this is and what I can do to see the drawing only? >> >>Probably you encountered a bug in the png export of inkscape. Does it work >>if you delete the SVG->PNG converter? In that case LyX will convert to EPS >>and then use the EPS->PNG converter (convert from imagemagick if you did >>not define your own) for display. If that does not work, send an example >>SVG file.
In a different thread about svg export resolution, I gave a script to extract the bounding box from png exports: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg47491.html Maybe this can help as a wrapper of the png export. -- Jean-Pierre
