LyX 2.3 and 2.4 have troubles displaying EPS images

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Thibaut,

I don't know. Try both of them

TeX has nothing to do with this, it's a LyX issue.

el

On 2022-02-10 03:22 , Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 22:45, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam at lisse.na> wrote:
> 
>     Is the issue displaying it on the screen or in the resulting PDF?
> 
> 
> For me, only the preview in LyX: LaTeX handles the EPS without troubles.
> 
>     Try GraphicsMagick :-)-O
> 
> 
> Isn't there a difference in the number of supported formats?  Both are
> quite copious (https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#supported
> vs.  http://www.graphicsmagick.org/formats.html, I'm not sure there's
> any noticeable difference for a LyX user.
> 
> Digging deeper into Photoshop's behaviour, it seems that the TIFF
> portion is a low-quality preview of the actual content (by default,
> using only one bit per pixel).  Among the two images output by
> ImageMagick (with a simple magick $$i.eps $$o.png), the preview is the
> second file ($$o-1.png), while the expected one is the first
> ($$o-0.png).
> 
> As I understand, the standard behaviour with pdflatex is to go through
> epstopdf, which internally uses GhostScript.  It doesn't care about
> the preview and only outputs the image that corresponds to
> ImageMagick's $$o-0.png.
> 
> (However, I'm really unfamiliar with TeX and derivatives' code source,
> so I could not really triple check this.)
>