Re: image-dired shows images as text

[Allan <mu8ja0i@earthlink.net>]

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

>  > I installed ImageMagick 6.3.7 and configured it with the image-dired
>  > customization window along with the thumbs customization window but still
>  > cannot display thumbnails. I always get the error message "could not create
>  > thumb for ....". There may be something else missing in the image-dired
>  > configuration besides what you mention here. I have put the full path name
>  > of ImageDirect-6.3.7-Q8 for the image-dired thumb creation programs.
>
> You don't say what system you are using (M-x emacs-version, or better still use
> M-x report-emacs-bug) but there are two thumbnail modes in Emacs that use the
> convert program from ImageMagick.  The other is thumbs.el.  What happens in
> Dired if you mark several image files and do thumbs-dired-show-marked?
>
> -- 
> Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
I am using Emacs 22.1 on Windows XP like the OP. When I type M-x thumbs-dired-show-marked I just get empty squares displayed four rows wide. I marked six images and I got one row of four squares and a second row of two squares, all blank. I have tried M-x thumbs before and got similar results (namely, a block of sixteen empty boxes). I have also added the ImageMagick directory to the exec-path variable via a customization window, but unfortunately it did not help.
Thanks for your attention.

-- 
Allan