[texhax] Graphics with Lyx.

[Bob Tennent]

 >|I have recently had to deal with a paper submitted
 >|to ANZJS, that was prepared using Lyx. The paper
 >|was actually handled by one of my technical-editing
 >|colleagues and he found that no matter what he did the
 >|graphics that were contained in the paper were converted
 >|to png format even though/when the graphics were provided
 >|as pdf files. The resulting diminishment in the quality
 >|of the graphics was noticeable and was unacceptable for
 >|the Journal.

I've just tested lyx and included a pdf graphics file. I
"exported" to .tex and the resulting file had

\includegraphics{filename}

with no extension so lyx isn't converting to png. If the
resulting tex file is processed by pdflatex it will use
filename.png if it's available so perhaps there is a poor
quality .png file in the same directory. Remove it and
re-process.

 >|I know from nothing about Lyx --- I'm not even sure what
 >|it *is* exactly

It's a front-end to LaTeX et al with a gui for users who
need it. 

Bob T.