Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote:
> The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it > directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). > > > Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, > > MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). > > Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap > formats as PNG) and try how it works. OOdraw should also support WMF. > > If OOdraw has a command line option to convert WMF to PFD or EPS, you > could even make LyX aware of the WMF format (search for SVG on > wiki.lyx.org as an template on how to configure LyX for WMF). What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. (Not a LyX issue, however.) > > These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. > > If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can > be told to convert eps to pdf as well). > If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to > convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... -- Daniel CLEMENT
