explain why we don't have an agr -> grace converter

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@17283 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/lib/configure.py b/lib/configure.py
index 53c0c47d7a3b9498f398b657c10fbaf5890ae20c..51770dfc97efbfdc11baeab87802512fbd46f487 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/configure.py
+++ b/lib/configure.py
@@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ def checkConverterEntries():
         if not 'Unrecognized' in cmdOutput('convert ' + conv_opts + ' 2>&1'):
             addToRC(r'\converter pdf        png        "convert %s pdf:$$i png:$$o"    ""' % conv_opts)
     #
+    # no agr -> pdf converter since the pdf library used by gracebat is not
+    # free software and therefore not compiled in in many installations.
+    # Fortunately this is not a big problem because we will use epstopdf to
+    # convert from agr to pdf via eps without loss of quality.
     checkProg('a Grace -> Image converter', ['gracebat'],
         rc_entry = [
             r'''\converter agr        eps        "gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice EPS $$i 2>/dev/null"      ""