Juan Luis UPSAM wrote: > Dear all: > > I'm a happy and excited new user of Lyx in linux. My problem is that > I want to use it too in the windows Xp PCs of my department at the > university and I am not be able of use ImageMagick in a workable > way. > > I mean, at http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ > > the port author says that > >> Optionally, for graphics conversion you’ll need: >> ImageMagick. The convert executable needs to be in your path. > > I cannot guess what means "The convert executable needs to be in > your path".
Unix and Win32 both use an environment variable PATH. This variable contains a list of directories which are searched when you invoke an executable by name. For example, here on a linux machine the individual directories are separated by a colon: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/angus/bin These directories are searched in left to right order when you invoke 'convert' from the command line. Or from a program. If 'convert' (convert.exe in your case I guess) is not found in one of these directories, then "it is not in your path". Win32 users should take care that the correct 'convert' is used. I understand that there is a system tool with the same name (something to do with changing partition types!). In order to ensure that you use the correct tool, you should ensure that ImageMagick's convert is found first. Ie, the directory housing it should be listed before that housing the system tool in your PATH variable. HTH, -- Angus
