On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, NsK <n-...@mail.com> wrote: > a nedunuri <nedunuri <at> cs.utexas.edu> writes: > >> >> Hello, I am running Lyx 2.0.0 on Windows 7. When I import a figure created in >> Visio but saved as an emf file, it converts and appears ok in the Lyx editor. >> However, if I try to view the generated pdf file, adobe reader sits and >> thinks >> for a very long time before it is able to display the page containing the >> graphis. When it finally does, the figure appears vastly blown up in size. I >> need to scale it down in Lyx to about 20% of the original size to get it to >> fit, and even then reader will labor for a very long time beofre displaying >> the page (and sometimes omits the figure entirely). I never noticed this >> problem before b/c I used to give Lyx the eps file, converted from emf by a >> 3rd party tool which is unf. no longer free so i am reliant on the built- >> in convertor now. Any ideas? >> >> cheers >> PS my current workaround is to get visio to save it as a jpg which I import >> into Lyx. This works ok but doesn't produce as sharp an image >> >> > > > I know it's an old thread but just in case someone has the same issue: > > It looks like the new metafile2eps.exe (version 2.1) is the problem. > By rolling back to version 1.5 > (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter) the issue was solved for > me. >
Thanks for resurrecting this--it actually looks very similar to the problem I described in this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg90560.html I wonder if it is really Windows-specific or more general. Maria
