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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Image Format Conversion on OS X with Transmute
From:       Jerry <lanceboyle () qwest ! net>
Date:       2014-05-30 3:37:32
Message-ID: D8EA698B-30D8-4C16-A907-4F80E2B283CA () qwest ! net
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On May 28, 2014, at 11:12 AM, James Dean Palmer <james@tiger3k.com> wrote:

> I recently wrote a little command line utility called transmute that converts \
> between various image formats using only the Quartz, CoreGraphics, and Cocoa APIs.  \
> Apple's sips utility can do the same sort of thing but, oddly, sips doesn't support \
> EPS or PS. 
> transmute also has some other neat tricks like clipboard support, input and output \
> from stdin/stdout and setting the page number for conversion (PDF only). It's \
> available here: 
> https://bitbucket.org/jdpalmer/transmute
> 
> Once installed, you just need to add this to your preferences file:
> 
> \converter "ps" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" ""
> \converter "eps" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" ""
> \converter "pdf" "png" "transmute $$i $$o" ""
> 
> And then there's no more dependency on ghostscript or XQuartz for EPS, PS, and PDF \
> image previews. 
> Best,
> James
> 
James, I haven't tried this but it looks awesomely awesome. Would you mind making a \
note on the LyX wiki about it? And maybe an indication, if not already present, how \
to install without brew, e.g., put in /some/path for those who don't know this.

And maybe you can help my confusion. PDF is listed as source-file only but the note \
about -n pageno sort of indicates that pageno can be applied to rendered PDFs. I'm \
probably misreading something.

Jerry


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