On Wednesday 03 April 2002 1:11 pm, R. Lahaye wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:11 pm, R. Lahaye wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > For Grace and GIF files (those are the ones I've tested) I encounter an > > > unusual behaviour, with respect to the given path of the graphics file. > > > > > > If the file-path is relative (not starting with a "/"), the View->DVI > > > and View->Postscript end with an error. The LaTeX logfile says > > > > [snip...] > > > > Hi, Rob. > > > > I don't see this with current cvs. Note that Allan chacked in a fix to > > insetgraphics.C this morning for something similar to this. Do you still > > see the problem with a bang up-to-date lyx? > > Just updated my CVS and recompiled. I still have it! > > Do the following: > Start up LyX > File->New > Insert->Graphics... > Click on [Browse] and select a GIF file (e.g. cid.gif) > The file-path should then be relative (not starting with a "/") > Click on [OK] > View->DVI (or View->Postscript) > > Then the Alert window pops up, saying "One error detected". > > The latex logfile has the following line: > > ! LaTeX Error: File `/tmp/lyx_tmpdir772110wZwKn/lyx_tmpbuf1/cid' not found.
Nope. All is fine with me. What happens if, you save the file (with graphics file as relative) and then open it again? Is this a function of your new buffer not having a path or something? (Although I have no problems at all...) > Now click on the figure in LyX and change the file-path to the absolute > path: problem solved! Hardly the point. > An eps file does not suffer from this problem. > > Can you reproduce this? > > Regards, > Rob. Angus