Mariano Draghi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the list, and to tell you the truth, almost new to LyX too > (I've been using it for a month or so). > I'm having some problem with the ".eps" files. > The first time I installed LyX, it was version 1.3.1, and I used a rpm > (I'm running LyX under RedHat Linux 8.0). But then I wanted to try the > last version, so I get 1.3.2 from source, and compiled it. > Everything went well... except for the "inserted" images. Whenever I > insert an image into my document, I got an "Error loading image into > memory" message, and the image is not displayed. > The problem doesn't afect the actual "rendering" of the image when I > generate the DVI or PDF file; It has to do with the "edition" mode. > > Does anybody have a clue of what could be going wrong? > Thanks for your help! > > Mariano > Bs.As., Argentina > > PS: Sorry for my English... just in case. ;)
Your English is fine... LyX uses external programs to convert graphics files (in this case EPS I suppose) into a format that the GUI library (Qt or xforms) can load natively. If you run $ lyx -dbg graphics you'll get a lot of messages printed to console telling you exactly what LyX is doing. I suspect that you are using the default "convertDefault.sh" script that LyX uses when you haven't defined a specific converter yourself. It is just a wrapper for Imagemagick's "convert" program. Do you have this installed? If you do, does it work from the command line. If you are using the xforms frontend: $ convert yourfile.eps PPM:yourfile.ppm If you are using the Qt frontend: $ convert yourfile.eps PNG:yourfile.png If that fails, perhaps you should run your eps file through ghostscript's eps2eps utility. $ eps2eps yourfile.eps clean_eps.eps Alternatively, use another program to convert the file from EPS format. Here I use a couple of scripts (attached). Use the Preferences dialog to define specific converters from EPS to PNG format etc. Hope that this helps, Angus
my_ps2png
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my_ps2ppm
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