Andre, thanks a lot for the quick answer, which proved successful.
$PATH issue turned out true, although I had logged out and in.
But setting .MacOSX/environment.plist's PATH to the shell's path
solved the problem.
The interesting thing now is, even after deleting that PATH from
envrionment.plist (and logging out/in and reconfiguring LyX etc.),
the pics show up fine. It appears that LyX just need the appropriate
setting once, after which it finds the "convert" command fine..
Weird...
Anyway, thanks again for saving my day! (or what remains of it :-)
Kei.
On 03.08.2005, at 16:52, Andre Berger wrote:
* Kei Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-08-03 16:30 +0200:
Dear list,
after unsucessfully searching the list for remedies, I am afraid to
bother you
regarding this apparently well-known error.
System: lyx-1.3.6 with fink TeTeX/Ghostscript/ImageMagick
on Mac OS X 10.4.2 (german) with UI language set to english
The problem is very weird:
- When starting LyX from the Finder, no image is displayed, with the
dreadful
"error converting to loadable format" shown. Testcase is the Help-
Extended
Features file (moebius.eps in chapter 3.8)
- OTOH, when starting lyx in the terminal from the application
package (with
or without the "-dbg graphics"), then lyx presents the *german*
interface,
and all images appear fine.
$PATH issue.
What I have already tried:
- Path in both .MacOSX/environment.plist and Lyx->Preferences->Paths-
PATH prefix
includes /sw/bin
- Link /sw/bin/convert to /usr/local/bin/convert
- created an eps to png converter ("/sw/bin/convert -depth 8 $$i $
$o") in Preferences
- Entered this converter also in the "preferences" file in the
Application package
(Application Support/LyX/preferences of course has it already)
- Changed "defaultConvert.sh" so that convert has absolute path (/sw/
bin/convert).
Did you log out and in after changing ~/.MacOS/environment.plist?
That's mandatory.
FYI, here's my ~/.MacOS/environment.plist (not using fink but
darwinports):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>DISPLAY</key>
<string>:0.0</string>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/
sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/Developer/Tools:/Library/Tcl/bin:/usr/local/
aolserver/bin</string>
<key>LANG</key>
<string>en</string>
<key>LANGUAGE</key>
<string>en</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Replace the PATH string with your working $PATH from your shell, log
in and out. Edit>Reconfigure LyX, restart LyX. Does it work now?
-Andre
