Rob S wrote: > But moving on--- > > I cannot now view .pdf images in 1.3.5 under windoze > I'm seeing a > convertDefault.sh Error > The script cannot find the ppm file in the temp dir > > any ideas?
Yes. See this from Enrico Forestieri http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general:19523 ======================================================================= > - The convertDefault.sh script doesn't work again, it always fails > when testing for converted file existance. I had to comment those > lines out in order to get the figures to display in LyX This is due to a nasty feature of the shell sh.exe included in the package. If you installed lyx in C:/Programs/lyx, then any path of the form C:/Programs/lyx/tmp/anything gets translated to %TEMP%/anything, where %TEMP% is the windows temporary files location. To test this, try opening a dos terminal and launching sh.exe, then try "cd C:/Programs/lyx/tmp" and see where you end up.... I have also Cygwin installed and noticed that if using cygwin pathnames this does not occur, i.e., "cd /c/Programs/lyx/tmp" works (I mounted /c on C: under cygwin). For those with Cygwin, this patch works: $ diff -u convertDefault.sh.orig convertDefault.sh --- convertDefault.sh.orig 2005-01-03 17:40:30.000000000 +0100 +++ convertDefault.sh 2005-01-05 19:00:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -28,7 +28,13 @@ # so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line. FILE=`echo "$2" | cut -d ':' -f 2-` -test -f "$FILE" || { +# The shell sh.exe distributed with LyX behaves strangely: +# The references to $INSTDIR/tmp get translated to $TEMP if $INSTDIR is of +# the type "C:/xyz", but not translated if it is a cygwin path like "/c/xyz". +# Hence, $FILE would not be found because it is searched in the wrong place! +CYGFILE=`cygpath $FILE` + +test -f "$CYGFILE" || { echo "$0 ERROR" echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\"" exit 1 This "feature" of sh.exe was also responsible for the failure of the old script lyxpreview2bitmap.sh, used for instant preview. ======================================================================= I believe that the solution for you is to remove all of the diagnostics at the end of convertDefault.sh. Ie, just cut out this: # It appears that convert succeeded, but we know better than to trust it ;-) # convert is passed strings in the form "FMT:FILENAME", so use the ':' to # delimit the two parts. # Note that Win32 filenames have the form 'C:\my\file', # so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line. FILE=`echo "$2" | cut -d ':' -f 2-` test -f "$FILE" || { echo "$0 ERROR" echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\"" exit 1 } echo "$0 generated file \"${FILE}\" successfully." -- Angus
