Thanks! for the tip, Kathryn, It WORKS!! LyX can render included graphics, again.
So some advice for LyX users who upgrade to SUSE 7.3: If LyX will not render your included graphics, upgrade to ghostscript-7.03 as suggested by Stephen Gregory, below. I could not rebuild the RedHat source rpm on my SUSE box, but I did compile the source (ghostscript-7.03.tar.gz) from (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get703.htm). You will need to edit the gs7.03/src/unix-gcc.mak file to tell it the directories you've placed the ungzipped and untarred sources for jpeg, libpng, and zlib, (use tar xzvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, for example). Then create a symbolic link in the gs7.03 directory (for example: ln -s src/unix-gcc.mak Makefile) Then "make" and "make install" should set up ghostscript in /usr/local. Tell LyX to use this version of ghostscript in your ~/.lyx/lyxrc file (\ps_command "/usr/local/bin/gs") and it should happily render your included eps files. -Ron. On 24 Nov, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > I haven't tried this yet myself, but I'm forwarding as suggested. > > ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:34:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Stephen Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Lyx Figure Rendering > > I hope you don't mind me contacting you off the mailing list, but I > can't seem to get a message to the list. If you are still having your > figure rendering problem, I might have something useful to say. > > I had the same problem when I upgraded from Red Hat 7.0 to 7.2 on both my > desktop and laptop. I fought it for days, trying many versions of lyx, > ghostscript, gv and ghostview. > > I was using rpms, because I wanted to keep some sort of control over > all that swapping of software. > > I found out, for instance, that I had your exact problem with all > versions of lyx beyond lyx-1.1.6fix1 (I didn't go back to earlier > versions than that, because I know there was no problem with that > version when running RH7.0. The first breakthrough came when I used > ghostscript-7.03-1.i386.rpm (no earlier versions of ghostscript > worked) and found that the figures would render, but I was getting an > error message from the fontfinder and there were no fonts to be seen > on the images. Of course, this was a problem in all uses of > ghostscript, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why it > could not use the fonts despite their being exactly where gs -h said > they needed to be. I then got into a lot of playing around with > ghostscript. In the end, for reasons that I will never probably > understand, I found that installing ghostscript-fonts-6.0-2.noarch.rpm > did the trick. Note that NO OTHER combinations of ghostscript and > ghostscript-fonts ever worked. > > I am totally exhausted, but, just in case you are still struggling - two > months later - I thought I should email you. By the way, if you know how > to forward this - particularly to John Levon, who replied to you, it might > be helpful. > > Steve Gregory > > > ********************************************** > > Stephen Gregory > Physics Department > University of Oregon > Eugene OR 97403-1274 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 541 346-4764 > fax: 541 346-3422 > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
