Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in
fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file
(as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I
had to do.
My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up in my case
when it converted my 1.3.7 preferences/settings to 1.4.1. I had a
couple of problems after conversion, including Instant Preview and
this. My advice to anyone with the same setup (Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.3
to 1.4 upgrade) is to reconfigure LyX and to delete the preferences
file and reset preferences manually after upgrading. It won't hurt
and it might fix a few things.
Maria
On May 8, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
Maria Gouskova wrote:
I have the same exact problem, also on Mac OS 10.4.6--upgrading
from 1.3x to 1.4 broke image support. I used JPEG images, and LyX
says it cannot find a converter.
Reconfiguring LyX didn't fix it.
What is the converter for JPEG images, just so I can manually
define it in Preferences>Converters? And should LyX maybe define
one by default, since it used to work in LyX 1.3.7? Thanks,
Maria
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac Prerequisites
2. Use the fink package management system to install tetex,
ghostscript, and imagemagick.
Imagemagick is the standard program used on all platforms for
image conversion. The installer is supposed to check for the
installation of Imagemagick and automatically use it, if found.
pdflatex works on .png, jpeg, pdf, & gif files but an eps format
needs to be converted in order for pdflatex to work. If you
don't have (free) Imagemagick installed, install it and then
reconfigure LyX. My solution only covers this possibility.
But sometimes the LyX installer doesn't find the proper (Paths)
converters and viewers even though they are on the hard drive.
I think the troubleshooting order should start with ImageMagick.
Regards,
Stephen
