Hi,

For the record. I spent time investigating the
problem with ImageMagick "convert.exe" for W2K.
I found a very nice article (which we should
keep somewhere on Lyx.org) explaining the problems
for MS Windows and 'convert.exe'. Please visit
http://savage.net.au/ImageMagick/html/install-convert.html

My problem was that there was a mismatch between
the current version of ImageMagick and the quite
old version of ghostscript (and ghostview) that I
was using. ImageMagick did not neatly trap the
error that occured as a result of the version
incompatibility, did not provide a useful
error message, but it did crash out (ie leaving 
it to the O.S. to pick up the pieces). I 
understand that this problem will be fixed in the next release of ImageMagick. 

So, I solved my problem by installing the latest
versions of ghostscript and gsview and ImageMagick
and everything has worked fine! Not a LyX problem
at all! :) 

Thanks for help!
Regards
Goffredo

> 
> From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Re: errror converting to loadable format
> Date: 13/06/2003 4:48:49
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Hi Angus,
> > FYI .. I ran the command you specified below and the response was :
> > 
> > Invalid Parameter - 8
> > 
> > hmmmm ... not sure what that means ...
> > 
> > Regards
> > Goffredo
> 
> Can you edit the script and change the line
>         convert -depth 8 $1 $2
> to
>         convert $1 $2
> 
> -- 
> Angus
> 
> 

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