Hello Uwe, > MiKTeX's Ghostscript is not the full version and not suitable to be used > together with ImageMagick. > To assure that everything works, we only check if the official Ghostscript is > installed.
I have heard of this somewhere before. But throughout the process of several years of using mgs, I have never encountered any problem with mgs: either in combination with Imagemagic or used standalone. Can you please give an example case in which mgs doesn't work with Imagemagic? I use mgs with Imagemagic in scripts like the Gscripts for tex4ht. In cases where explicit names gswin32c.exe must be referred to, I simply make a copy of mgs.exe and name it gswin32c.exe. In order to make mgs work standalone, an environment variable called MIKTEX_GS_LIB must be set, whose value is something like C:\MiCTeX\MiKTeX 2.7\ghostscript\base;C:\MiCTeX\MiKTeX 2.7\fonts > Why? What is so special with this font that you absolutely can't live with it > when it is installed. > You can leave it installed and don't need to use it. Because I provide for Chinese users a special MiKTeX bundle with preconfigured Chinese environment, and I wish to keep my installation small -- many users have very poor network condition and downloading large packages like lmodern might be a nightmare. The same is true for my installation program: if it grows too large it'll be more and more difficult to download. Anyway I understand the reasoning for LyX to install the tex components which it needs. I can just keep interupting the LyX installation process in the future. Thank you very much for all the replies. instanton
