Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 
>> AFPL Ghostscript 8.13: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> Error: /undefined in +-+�?
>> 
>> twice (not exactly those characters, but close enough), followed by
>> a stack dump each time, and then
>> 
>> AFPL Ghostscript 8.13: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>> c:\program files\imagemagick-5.5.7-q16\convert.exe: DPS library is
>> not available
>> (C:/LyX/Documents/MGT805/matching.eps).
> 
> Try reading the first couple of links here...
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2qkaq
> 
> Maybe you should take this to the ImageMagic users list.
> 

Whoah, deja vu!  I thought that my browser had burped -- that popped up 
the same (as it turns out fruitless) Google search I did before posting 
to the group.

Anyway, it appears that this is in fact an ImageMagick problem.  After 
extensive experimentation (in lieu of doing my employer's work), I have 
discovered that, at least on the Windows port of ImageMagick, the convert 
program blows up if you specify the input file with an eps: prefix.  It 
can convert filename.eps, but not eps:filename.eps (nor eps:filename with 
no suffix).  It seems to have no problem with ppm: or png: as prefixes, 
and it has not objection to eps:filename.eps as a target, but woe be unto 
you if you try eps: as the prefix on the input file.  Which, of course, 
LyX does.

Since I never preview graphics in LyX anyway, and since my employer 
expects me to do something useful at least periodically, I don't intend 
to report this to the ImageMagick group, but I thought it would post it 
here since LyX on Windows users will probably raise this question 
periodically.  Perhaps someone with more motivation than I will first 
verify my findings and then take them to the right forum.

-- Paul

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