From 8335dc49e1ab0bd76f1476bf02b77d7bfecfb373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Sanda Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:19:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * RELEASE-NOTES --- lib/RELEASE-NOTES | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 9e9611b30d..9060410b4d 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -84,6 +84,22 @@ * Postscript -> PDF convertor (ps2pdf) uses -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY by default now (implemented since ghostscript 9.53.3, see bug #12303). +* There is a widespread ban on postscript conversions across different + linux distributions and there are currently two way how to address + various image conversion errors when typesetting your documents: + - either manually remove the bans of EPS/PDF coders in ImageMagick + policy.xml configuration file + - or install alternative converters for bitmap <-> postscript. + In particular pdftoppm (poppler-utils) and tiff2ps (libtiff-tools) + are now recognized and activated in case LyX detects ImageMagick + policy ban. These will allow eps<->png(jpg) conversion chain to + be found when processing your documents. + Package maintainers of distributions (e.g. openSUSE or Debian derivates) + where ghostscript conversions of ImageMagick are banned can simply + add dependencies for poppler-utils and libtiff-tools to workaround + the problem. + + !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4: * \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking -- 2.39.5