Figure not displayed in pdflatex after exporting from lyx

Question

I am able to add the figure in a lyx document, by using float and insert graphics. But when I view in the pdf, I don't see the figure in the inserted location. Instead I see the location of the file inside a blank box. See below.

I want to know why this is the case and any suggestions on how to fix it

Answer 1

Most probably you have checked by error the Draft mode in the LaTeX and LyX options tab of the Graphics dialog:

You can check also if the image have this option in the Code Preview Pane, (View menu):

\includegraphics[draft]{example-image} 

Maybe you have set the option at a document level:

And then you must see in the Code Preview Pane some starting code as:

\documentclass[draft]{article}

Improbably, you could have this global option in the graphicx package, because set this is not trivial with LyX menus: Document → Settings → Local layout → type provides graphicx 1 → Validate → Apply, then in LaTeX preamble → type → \usepackage[draft]{graphicx} → Apply.

Finally, if there are not any draft option anywhere, but the image is not still showed the PDF, the file does not exist, or you set the wrong path and/or the wrong filename.

At this respect, just some suggestions to debug this kind of issues:

• Place the images in the working directory.

• Be sure that you do not set absolute paths (C:\etc\etc...) in the Graphics tab, but only relative paths (if you follow the above point, the relative path is just the file name).

• Use short and simple file names (No spaces, no underscores, no extra dots, no tildes, no mix under-upper cases, no nothing). Although actual programs supposedly can handle well all of this, live is simply easier without having to deal with hypertrophied file names.