Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I have an EPS picture inserted in a LyX document. When I run
View --> PDF (pdflatex)
I do not get the picture on the PDF document. On the command line, it
appears the following:
$ /usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR
Execution of "convert" failed.
$
Any clue?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
LyX calls the convertDefault.sh shell script to convert your EPS file
into another format (not sure which, possibly PDF). The shell script in
turn calls the ImageMagick convert utility, which apparently failed.
The error message you got was from the shell script, so we don't know
what (if any) error message convert issued.
From a command prompt in the directory containing the EPS file, try
convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf
and see if (a) convert runs and (b) it pulls off the conversion
successfully. If so, chances are it's something like LyX not having
permission to run convert or LyX not supplying the right path to the
image file. If convert fails, hopefully it will give an informative
error. If you can't run convert, that in itself will tell you something.
HTH,
/Paul
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