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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: xfig graphics (pdf v pdflatex)
From:       Angus Leeming <leeming () lyx ! org>
Date:       2003-09-26 12:39:45
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Helge Hafting wrote:
> pdflatex and xfig is possible.
> Take a look at http://www.aitel.hist.no/~helgehaf/sw/figpdf.html
> 
> This is a different external inset for xfig files, that
> produce a .pdf from the .fig, and pdflatex then
> includes the .pdf with no need for further conversions.

Nice!

| Room for improvement 
| A better solution would be a single external inset that converts
| .fig to .eps/.pstex_t when exporting latex/dvi/ps, and converts
| .fig to .pdf/.pdf_t when running pdflatex. I don't know how to do
| that though, so for the time you need to change your insets between
| XFig and XFigPDF depending on what you want to output.

This merger has happened in the 1.4 series. The same XFig external inset 
will just do the right thing.

Incidentally, does any body have any experience with the (new?) -F flag to 
xfig's pstex_t, pdftex_t output?

-- 
Angus

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