Dear angus, rob and luiz and all people here, after invoking lyx from command line using -dbg graphics, I obtained a list of graphic file types that can be used directly:
BMP PBM PGM PNG PPM XBM XPM So till I review slowly Rob Saunders' document, at least my people can use graphics mainly in PNG - which is also a good thing, since it help to use PNG instead of gif anyway, I guess that migration is not going to be totally painless, but it is a good improvement from Ms Word. Indeed, I renounced to use Ms Word because of template corruptions and other wonders, but OpenOffice has its own bugs and I felt increasingly unsatisfied about document generation... I don't know, it seems to be quite hard to change users preferences (towards WYSIWYG), but I am going to see if in a little research department of sociology there can be fundamental changes about it AL> On Friday 23 April 2004 12:08 pm, Juan Luis UPSAM wrote: >> Let's see, >> >> First of all, thank you Angus! It has been a ton of time since I >> worked with Ms-Dos and I forgot all about paths. Indeed, I started >> to look for config.sys till I saw that I had to use control panel >> :P >> >> Now lyx can find where ImageMagick is... but as you can see in the >> screenshot, the library doesn't handle the conversion. Meanwhile, >> the console screen shows a long list of possibilities of (I guess) >> convert.exe, but don't work with the graphic file (see console >> screenshot). AL> Ok. So now we need to ascertain why 'convert' failed. Or if, indeed, AL> it was run. AL> Three things to do: AL> 1. Check that your postscript file is valid. AL> 2. Invoke lyx from the console as PROMPT>> lyx -dbg graphics AL> This will spew out a whole heap of noise, some of which may be useful. AL> 3. The actual converter you use to go from ps->png format (or any AL> other format loadable by the GUI frontend library in fact) can be AL> specified 'by hand'. See the Preferences dialog, Converter pane. AL> I suspect that nothing is listed, meaning that lyx falls back on the AL> convertDefault.sh script to be found in AL> $PREFIX/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh AL> ($PREFIX/bin/lyx is where the lyx executable is to be found.) AL> This script is a wrapper for ImageMagick's convert. To check that it AL> is indeed being invoked, add these lines to it: AL> echo AL> echo CONVERTDEFAULT.SH AL> echo AL> echo $@ AL> echo AL> which will print out the arguments used to invoke it. AL> Angus AL> -- Best regards, Juan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
