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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: pdf images to large-pdflatex
From:       Bob Lounsbury <boblounsbury () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-11-28 0:09:42
Message-ID: E570A435-3749-43A4-A6C3-78F85F57030B () gmail ! com
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On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> Bob Lounsbury wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Using pdflatex under 1.3.7 and 1.4.3 on a Mac and 1.3.7 on XP, a  
>> jpeg picture is displayed much larger than using ps2pdf, dvipdfm,  
>> or dvi converters under the LyX->View dialog. Any ideas? I  
>> wouldn't mind using a different converter, but on my five year old  
>> iBook pdflatex has the fastest conversion (by about 1min or more)  
>> to a pdf document. Everything is installed under Fink, and the  
>> pdflatex conversion command under ~Preferences->Converters->Latex  
>> to PDF is 'pdflatex $$i'. Thanks.
>> Bob Lounsbury
>
> How are you scaling the image?  I get consistent results across  
> View->DVI, View->PDF (pdflatex) and View->PDF (ps2pdf) if I scale  
> based on absolute units or text%; adventures occur if I scale using  
> scale%. (Curiously, I don't get any image output if I use View->PDF  
> (dvipdfm) or export to PDF (dvipdfm) -- no JPG, no PNG, not even  
> EPS.  Just appropriately sized blank spaces in the file.)
>
> /Paul
>


Sure enough, I was using scale% and text% gives consistent results.  
Thanks.

I also don't get any image output with View->PDF (dvipdfm), another  
reason why I wanted pdflatex to work.

Thanks again.

Bob Lounsbury
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