Comment 7 for bug 1599763

Hi,
> I am reading the post at:> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10197
>
> I think it would be appropriate to repeat the advice given there:
> •EMFs are now converted using another converter program (if available it is Inkscape). Therefore other results can be expected. Using EMFs in laTeX documents is not a good idea. EMF is Windows-only and cannot be embedded to any output format. Thus convert the EMFs to a PDF image and you won't have any problems with different converter results (or even no result on Mac and Linux).
>
=> 2 thoughts about this. 1.First of all, this was the first reply out of 4, and all the others knew and recognized that lyx's ability to eat whatever image formats you'll feed it is a value in itself, as it automates tedious and error prone manual labor. If i'll change my drawings a tiny bit (which happens very often with over 100 drawings), i don't want to go through a long manual process there all the time. And for the choice of the format - it is the only reasonable vector graphics format power point can export. And emf is never used directly in latex, it is automatically converted by lyx (using helpers like now inkscape).
2. I just filed a bug on inkscape after we realized after long discussion that this is an inkscape and no lyx issue. Do you want to tell me, that the behaviour i observe using a fresh install of inkscape is correct (i.e. no bug)?
> I would recommend that you install a recent version of Inkscape, do your
> own, independent, conversion from emf to pdf using Inkscape, and then
> use that pdf output in Lyx. This will avoid confusion as to what the
> source of the problem is.
3. I just did this and see exactly the scrambling i observe when using lyx.
regards, Steffen