Oh, yes. .eps -> .ppm converter was mistakenly specified in Preference. Removing it corrected the problem.
Now, I understand the purpose of the Converter tab in Preference :) (Was there a documentation for this? Sorry, I'm only a user :) Anyway, thank you very much. Koji Yokota On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:22:18AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > >So, it seems the phenomenon I observed is a natural consequence in my > >current environment. > >Do I need to modify lyxpreview2ppm.py? > > lyxpreview2ppm.py is meant to be used to create WYSIWYG-type previews of > things like Math equations. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview. The > process of generating these images is rather involved, requiring a special > LaTeX package, preview.sty, together with a conversion from LaTeX document > -> dvi file -> (possibly lots and lots of) bitmap images of the math > equations. > > If you want to simply view your .eps images within LyX, I recommend that > you remove and explicit converter .eps -> .ppm (or .png). The converter > mechanism will then fall through to the use of scripts/convertDefault.sh > which is simply a wrapper for ImageMagick's "convert" utility. Install that > and all should work perfectly. > > Let me know if you continue to have problems. > > Angus > -- Koji Yokota ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Economics Otaru University of Commerce
