On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> Hi.  I just know this is a FAQ, but I cannot seem to find in 
> either the help menu or the mailing list archive.  The problem
> is in including figures.  When I try to include a postscript
> figure in the document, it works just fine and the lyx picture
> looks just great.  The problem comes when I try to preview
> the document.  An error is generated and a dialog box pops up
> that instructs me to find the error.  It is easy enough
> to select the go to error menu command, but the error, although

It would be very helpful if you can email the original error text

> clearly highlighted in red, is cryptic.  From what I can tell
> it suggests that .ps or .eps are not supported as an included
> graphic in Latex.  It also asks the user to

When you insert picture in lyx you must be shure, that they are in the
eps-format, and NOT in the ps format


> press return.  This actually does not help.  Could it be
> possible that there is a bug or configuration
> problem in Latex.  When I type latex
> from the system prompt, the version is 3.1415N C version 6.1.
> I was wondering if it was a configuration error, but I did run
> the lyx configure script.  It should have warned me of any
> problems there.  Unfortunately, I don't know Latex well
> enough to figure out how to debug the error from the Latex
> side.  Has anybody seen this?  By the way, everything
> works just great if a figure is not inserted.  If the figure
> box is clicked, and the figure is removed, the display works
> just fine, and I suppose I could print that out and paste
> the figure in by hand.  I checked the documentation very 
> carefully and it seems that .ps or .eps should be supported
> for printing as well as just screen display.  The fact that
> the screen display does show the rendered image (perfectly,
> I might add) indicates that I am at least going in the right
> direction.  I heard some rumors about latex for Slackware
> not working quite right, but I searched the WWW on this and
> only found some vague reference to fonts, which surely has
> nothing to do with this problem.  Thanks for any advice you
> might have.
> Eric
> 
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