Description of problem: lyx doesn't display the inserted graphics. I am using qt frontend. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lyx-1.4.0-4.fc5 lyx-qt-1.4.0-4.fc5 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a new file in lyx 2. Insert an eps file using the menu "Insert -> Graphics..." 3. Actual results: lyx displays "Error converting to loadable format" Expected results: lyx displays the inserted graphics in the window Additional info: dvi, ps, and pdf files are exported successfully. It seems just a display problem.
You may have an old config in your home directory. Try remove/rename ~/.lyx and/or From lyx' menu: Tools->Reconfigure BTW, what kind of graphic are you inserting?
See upstream report regarding graphic preview probs: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2376 BTW, to you have the ImageMagick rpm installed?
I removed ~/.lyx and did Tools->Reconfigure It seems that the problem was solved. It is weird because I installed FC5 on a freshly formatted hard drive and there should be no old config file in my home directory. Anyway, I'm happy with the result. Thank you for your suggestion. FYI, I am using eps graphics and I do have ImageMagick rpm installed.
Glad it worked for you. Now, I have to figure out why the Reconfigure was required in the first place (it shouldn't be)
To reproduce the problem, I removed the lyx and lyx-qt package and the old config file, then installed them again. This time, everything worked. I checked my yum.log. Although I did install ImageMagick, I installed it as a dependency of xfig after I reported the bug. I think you are right. It is the ImageMagick problem. Perhaps the ImageMagick rpm should be added to lyx's dependencies list such that people don't need to install ImageMagick separately after installing lyx to solve the display problem.
Thanks, that helped a lot, so I think we tracked down the cause, to be fixed in the next pkg iteration: %changelog * Thu Mar 30 2006 Rex Dieter <rexdieter[AT]users.sf.net> 1.4.0-5 - %%trigger ImageMagick (#186319)