Graphics clipping in LyX 2.3.6

[Stephan Witt]

Am 12.01.2022 um 21:23 schrieb Stephen Buonopane via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>:
> 
> Ever since I upgraded to LyX 2.3.6.2 (on Mac OS X 10.15.7) I have been having issues when I use “clip to coordinates” in the LyX: Graphics window. 
> The bounding box of the on-screen LyX preview is different than the pdf output (using pdflatex). This worked fine when I was in LyX 2.3.5.2
> 
> I am using an external pdf file which gets converted to on-screen PNG with the following command in the converters for PDF (graphics) -> PNG
> sips --resampleWidth 600 --setProperty format png $$i --out $$o
> 
> Below are two snippets from the Code Preview Pane for the exact same LyX file opened in each version.The same clipping coordinates are being converted to different values of the viewport parameter by the two different versions of LyX
> 
> LyX 2.3.6.2 Does NOT output correct pdf file 
> \begin{enumerate*}
> \item \textbf{Shear and Moment Diagrams}\\
> For the simply-supported beam shown below: \\
> \includegraphics[viewport=0bp 340bp 200bp 440bp,clip]{images/hw1_2022}
> \end{enumerate*}
> 
> LyX 2.3.5.2 DOES output correct pdf file 
> \begin{enumerate*}
> \item \textbf{Shear and Moment Diagrams}\\
> For the simply-supported beam shown below: \\
> \includegraphics[viewport=0bp 316.965bp 186.3333bp 410.19bp,clip]{images/hw1_2022}
> \end{enumerate*}
> 
> I looked at the release notes for 2.3.6 and the only possibly related item I could find was 
> "- Fix clipping of vector images and when exporting from command line  (follow-up to bug 11180).”
> but I could not find bug 11180 in the bug tracker, so not sure if this is related.
> 
> Any ideas? 

No idea ATM. But a link to the bug:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11180

BR,
Stephan

> For now I will revert to LyX 2.3.5.2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve