On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Hi, > > now I found some time to test and it turned out that some information in > this thread is wrong. Therefore I removed the warning from release notes > again. > > 1) Imagemagick 7 does still contain the 'convert' utility. If you install > from source on unix, it is simply a symlink to 'magick'. If you use the > binary installer on windows, you need to tick the "Install legacy utilities" > option in order to install a convert.exe along magick.exe (but for LyX this > is no longer needed since we prefer 'magick' if it is available). > > 2) LyX works perfectly with Imagemagick 7. I tested that without the convert > symlink. I could not see any difference to IM 6 (and I made sure I deleted > the image cache and reconfigured). I guess what might have lead to the > assumption that IM 7 does not work is the fact that the info inset produces > text output for .svgz images, but an image link for .png images. This should > be changed, modern browsers support svg (but may need uncompressing, I don't > know).
Good to know that 2.2.0 is expected to work with IM 7. Scott
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