LyX 2.4.0 (IM policy.xml ban on eps/pdf conversions)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:36:57AM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21.45.40 WET Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Jose, could I ask for pythonic help?
> > We would need a routine in configure.py which check whether to remove eps->png
> > conversion in case IM bans those conversions. That could be done this way by
> > checking return status of the conversion. In bash that would be something
> > like this:
> > 
> > echo '%!PS' > /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.eps
> > convert  /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.eps /tmp/.lyx_configure_test.png
> > if ! [ $? == 0 ] ; then
> >   # remove eps->png conversion from configure settings, i.e. set \converter
> > "eps" "png" "" "" fi
> > 
> > 
> > Completely different way would be mimicking what IM internally does with GS
> > when converting eps->png. I already checked little bit and unfortunately it
> > won't be oneliner if we want to get resolution right. But probably doable
> > with additional script of our own. Pavel
> 
> I will look into this in the weekend.
> 
> <Thinking aloud>
> At some point I will want to overhaul the configure.py script.
> The purpose is, among others, to simplify the code required to do this kind of tests.
> 
> The test above is relatively easy to do.
> Something that I should, probably, take into account is the order of the tests.
> 
> In the sense that if we different \convert lines we probably retain the last...
> </Thinking aloud>

ping :)
p