LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Wed Feb 9 21:21:13 UTC 2022


On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:06:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> If there is no counter-argument against this, I believe it would be the
> easiest solution overall. Otherwise, LyX could look after -1, -2 files,
> show one of them arbitrarily (say, the first one), and display a message to
> the user ("This image file contains several images, only the first one is
> being displayed"), but I'm not sure that would bring any value to the user
> (unless they have excellent knowledge of EPS, which is not the majority, I
> guess).

Isn't it possible to tell our Adobe friend to export the image in a more
sane way? In my experience the moment I start doing more fancy vector editing
in various editors, postscript rendering in latex shows all kinds of glitches
and export to pdf is the only robust solution.

Pavel


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