Anthony D Kendall wrote:
I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been
receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics:
"Error converting to loadable format"
As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine.
On both systems, for 1.5.6, the EPS preview worked well.
There is no problem viewing the document in DVI or PDF, and the output
looks great.
I looked into this somewhat, and think it's likely an issue with the
versions of ghostscript and imagemagick included in the
alt-installer--or their lack thereof. Neither program was installed
with the alt-installer, and simply copying the two directories from an
older install did not fix the problem. I do have both programs
installed elsewhere on my system, though this wasn't a problem with the
1.5.6. installer.
This happens with the small installer. I tried running the complete
installer, even uninstalling my existing MikTeX 2.7 installation. But
that installer fails after installing MikTeX for some reason.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a ready workaround? This is
really mostly an inconvenience, but having the figures shown in the lyx
document makes writing about them much easier.
Do you have the bin directories for GS and IM on your system command
path in XP (and whatever the analog is called in OS/X)? If not, you
might try adding them to the command path and then
reconfiguring/restarting LyX.
/Paul
