Thanks to Jose Matos and John Culleton, the vexed platypus mystery
is solved!
The platypus.eps file in /usr/share/lyx/doc is bad.
The platypus.eps file in /usr/share/lyx/clipart is good.
Changing the reference in the docbook example fixed the problem.
John O'Gorman
>From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "John O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: platypus.eps not a platypus
>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:43:51 -0400
>
>John O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > When I load the docbook example file, platypus.eps
> > does not get displayed properly. (I know what it should look like
> > from the www.lyx.org site.)
> >
> > I have Linux Redhat 6.2. The default utility gv is being called by
> > LyX. But ImageMagick also has the same problem. Other utilities I
> > have tried (xloadimage etc) cannot load the file at all.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution?
> >
> > John O'Gorman
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>I buit a toy to test the eps file:
>
>\input epsf.tex
>\epsfbox{platypus.eps}
>\bye
>
>and ran it through TeX. It is indeed a rather distorted platypus. So the
>file is OK. I suspect Lyx is looking in the wrong directory.
>
>Try my test and see if it produces the right picture. The sequence is:
>cd (appropriate directory)
>(build the above 3 line file and call it test.tex)
>tex test.tex.
>dvips test.dvi
>gv test.ps
>
>This will prove that you have a correct epsf file. If it doesn't work then
>the platypus.eps file is
>possibly corrupt.
>
>--
>John Culleton ---------> Please visit http://ccpl.carr.org/~john/
>
>
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