nburgan mecheng wrote:
To be able to view .eps and .pdf within LyX I need to get Image Magick working.
I was using Image Magick version 6.1.9 (ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) and AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. After some fiddling around I was able to view .eps/.pdf images withing LyX on one occasion but I came back to my computer a few hours later, turned it on again and I could no longer view .eps/.pdf within LyX.
As Windows user you should better restart Windows in such cases before become panic and before re/installing programs.
I thought there might be a conflict between I.M. and Ghostscript so to try and fix the problem I removed AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 and installed GNU Ghostscript7.05
No,no,no,no,no! Don't play around without concept! I tested ghostscript 8.50 and Imagemagick 6.1.9 on several machines (Win200 and XP) with success. I can only help you, when you follow my advices.
But OK, let's restart the whole thing:
1. deinstall ghostscript 7.05 AND Imagemagick 2. install ghostscript 8.50 (as admin!) 3. install Imagemagick 6.1.9 (ImageMagick-6.1.9-Q16-windows-dll.exe) 4. restart your computer 5. reconfigure LyX 6. restart LyX 7. try to insert an pdf/eps-image
if an error occured again but you are able to see png/jpg/gif-images inside LyX, then:
8. assure that all LyX-folders have write permissions for "everybody" 9. start LyX from the command line with the command:
lyx -dbg 3
10. try again to load an /pdf/eps-image and look what happens in the console window
10. send the output of the console window together with the path to the file "convert.exe" (the Imagemagick installation folder) to the list.
> GNU Ghostscript 7.05 > (this version is recommended on the Image Magick website).
Where did you found this?
C:\Documents\graphics>convert eps:aulogo.eps ppm:test.ppm convert.exe: no decode delegate for this image format `aulogo.eps'. convert.exe: missing an image filename `ppm:test.ppm'.
As I wrote you in one of the previous emails, the actual Imagemagick has problems to work with older ghostscript versions (only on windows).
Uwe
