shavawn donoghue wrote:
I have recently downloaded Lyx to my Windows 2000 machine (following wiki windows setup page though did install ghostscript at the end as was not sure if I needed it).
Ghostscript must be installed before Imagemagick. Otherwise imagemagick will have problems to find it. (Ghostscript is needed to convert .pdf and eps images.)
After reinstalling Ghostscript(use version AFPL 8.14 NOT version GPL 8.15) and then imagemagick, reconfigure LyX.
I have been trying to insert a graphic (an .eps figure) for the first time. But when I insert the figure I get an 'error converting to loadable format'. This is the same message I get for the figures in my user guide.
That is the problem described above. If it won't work after reinstalling Ghostscript, start LyX from a command line with
lyx -dbg 3
to get some useful background informations and post them again on this list.
I have tried to change the converters but to no success. Initially there was no eps converter on my list. I have added eps to png with the converter 'my_ps2png $$i $$o' modify, save, reconfigure etc but to no avail.
DON'T define own converters on LyXWin! This causes only troubles because there are some ugly bugs in LyXWin. Use only the predefined converters. For all other image formats, LyX uses a script ConverDefault.sh that calls Imagemagick to convert them.
regards Uwe
