On 2/17/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > > 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.
Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX. Paul
