Hello Uwe, I followed your instructions and uninstalled Ghostscript and Image Magick. I reinstalled Ghostscript 8.50 and Image Magick 6.1.9 and ended up with the same problem I had originally. I could view .jpg files in LyX but not .eps or .pdf. I could used Image Magick's "convert" program successfully from the command line though and could view .eps and .pdf using Image Magick's Display program.
I then followed Angus Leeming's advice and removed the last section of the convertDefault.sh file. This fixed my problem! I can now view .eps and .pdf files within LyX. The problem is quite reproduceable - whith the original convertDefault.sh the problem occurs, with the modified convertDefault.sh everything appears to be working fine. Thanks for your help. Regards Nick Burgan > 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 >
