On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:58:54PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ben> hi, I just compiled LyX 1.1.6fix2 under Solaris (using gcc
> Ben> 2.95.2) on Sun Sparc hardware. I used xforms 0.88. System
> Ben> ghostscript is 6.50.
>
> Ben> I have seen *no* figure previews in this particular LyX
> Ben> incarnation, even when I start LyX and then leave it alone for a
> Ben> while to do it's thing. It seems that there is something on this
> Ben> platform that triggers this bug *consistently*, rather than the
> Ben> intermittent behaviour which is seen under Linux.
>
> README says
> - note that ghostscript versions 6.22 through 6.50
> won't render inline figures in LyX. This is due to
> a ghostscript bug.
>
> I do not have first hand information on this, but it seems you'll have
> to update your ghostscript
yes, it was fixed in gs CVS a short time after 6.50 came out.
> (although I have seen a report that gs 7.00 does not work either).
after that report I built 7.00 and verified it works fine with LyX,
modulo the xforms bugs we know about.
john
> JMarc
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