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[Chris Retford <address@hidden>]

Thanks for the help... I re-installed ghostview and re-installed texmacs and 
it now works if I say 'insert link image'.  

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:06:32 +0200
David Allouche <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry for the previous message, I got bitten by an unwise keybinding in 
> KMail :(... Here is the complete message.
> 
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 07:26, Chris Retford wrote:
> > I am new to Texmacs and I really like it but I am having a problem with
> > inserting images.  I am using the 'article' document class.  I tried
> > 'Insert -> image -> insert image' which opens the insert image
> > dialogue.  The file I am inserting into is
> > '/home/chris/Documents/latex/thesis2.tm'  So when I open the dialog I
> > click the '..' and go to '/home/chris/Documents/images/' and click the
> > file 'test.ps' or a variety of other image formats I have there (it
> > doesn't seem to matter).  The preview of the image looks garbled and
> > when I press 'ok' I get the following error:  File '../images/test.ps'
> > not found
> 
> Thanks for the detailed report, however it would be more helpful if you 
> specified the TeXmacs version you are using, your operating system, and a 
> web address where we can find the document and the image causing the 
> problem.
> 
> I cannot help much about the garbled preview, AFIAK TeXmacs embeds 
> GhostScript for displaying images on screen, so cheking how the image 
> displays in GhostView might be helpful.
> 
> About the "file not found" problem, it might be an occurence of a 
> reported bug (I have not tried to reproduce it in recent versions of 
> TeXmacs, though):
> 
> http://alqua.com/tmresources/bug%20-%20included%20image%20in%20newly%20created%20document
> 
> If your problem is caused by that bug, TeXmacs is actually looking for 
> 'home/chris/images/test.ps', because base path of a document is not 
> updated by "Save as". If you save, close and reopen your thesis.tm 
> document, the working directory will be set correctly and the image will 
> be displayed.
> -- 
> 
>                                   -- David --
>