[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so i've finally been able to get everything working on my non-admin windows account, except imagemagick :(what i don't get however is what i need imagemagick for... in fact, if i export to latex and manually use latex or pdflatex, i can use images w/o imagemagick (after a bit of tweaking: adding graphicx package and fixing file name). so a few questions: - i've tried adding \usepackage{graphicx} to my preamble but i get errors about filename (seems like i get extra \string" before the path and before .jpg). see end of message for errors. who's doing what to my filename and why? - what does imagemagick bring that graphicx package doesnt do?
They have completely different purposes - one is in no way a substitute for the other. The graphicx package lets you use images. It provides the latex commands for including images and take their sizes into account when typesetting. Without it - no images unless you use other packages with similiar functionality. Imagemagic is a set of conversion programs, that can convert images from one format to another. It is useful because latex only supports a few kinds of images. Any other kind of image won't work, they must be converted to somathing latex (or pdflatex) can use. Lyx knows this, and will automatically use imagemagic (or other converters) to convert images as necessary. Without imagemagic, you can only use the kinds of images that latex/pdflatex support directly. (Or images for which you have other converters.) I believe latex supports .eps, while pdflatex supports .pdf, .png, and .jpg. For any other cases, you need a converter that lyx can use. Try a .bmp for example - it will need conversion. Helge Hafting
