Bug 753626

Summary:	Lyx not displaying images
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Boulton <james.boulton>
Component:	lyx	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	jamatos, rdieter
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Description James Boulton 2011-11-13 20:49:00 UTC

Description of problem:

Lyx reports error loading external images


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Lyx Version 2.0.1

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
From menu
Insert -> Graphics 
Browse to pdf file [Apply]
  
Actual results:

Error message 'Error converting to loadable image' 

Expected results:

The image displayed


Additional info:

This is fixed by installing ImageMagick. I think that Imagemagick should be a dependancy of lyx.

Comment 1 José Matos 2012-01-06 15:57:30 UTC

Rex, do you remember any reason for lyx not to require ImageMagick?

Even for compiling the documents lyx uses ImageMagick to convert images to formats that the latex compiler understands.

If there are no reasons I will add ImageMagick in the Requires field.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2012-01-06 16:06:05 UTC

No big or good reason, just figured it was something optional and not strictly required for base functionality.

See also bug #186319

short answer: no objection to adding Requires

Comment 3 José Matos 2012-01-07 00:06:50 UTC

We have other requirements that are less essential (in a sense) like tex-dvipost so I think that it is time to bring ImageMagick on board. I took dvipost as an example because it allows to preview math formulas like they show in the final output instead of using lyx rich preview.

ImageMagick is necessary not only to preview but also to typeset for several file formats.

I asked you (Rex) because sometimes there are subtle reasons that are not obvious by readind the spec file.

[Writing this with a sleeping baby on the other arm is a nice (typing) exercise :-) ].

I have added this to rawhide while testing gcc 4.7 and I intend to propagate this to stable releases just with 2.0.3, this is an important but urgent issue. :-)

Comment 4 José Matos 2012-11-26 14:43:44 UTC

This bug was fixed in 2.0.2-2, closing it now.