diff --git a/README.SUSE b/README.SUSE index fc1f1cc..25995c5 100644 --- a/README.SUSE +++ b/README.SUSE @@ -1,4 +1,21 @@ -LyX makes use of ImageMagick, a.o. for showing previews of images in the LyX windows. In (open)SUSE some functionality of ImageMagick is disabled for security reasons. This is true for all postscripts files. Showing an eps image in LyX, therefore, does not work out of the box. A postscript file has some functionality of a program, so it is safer to have this functionality disabled. +LyX makes use of ImageMagick, a.o. for showing previews of images in +the LyX windows. In openSUSE some functionality of ImageMagick is +disabled for security reasons. This is true for all postscripts +files. Showing an eps image in LyX, therefore, does not work out of +the box. + +If you want to enable some disabled functionality, you can edit the +settings in /etc/ImageMagick-7, if you know what you are doing. An +alternative is to remove the package with the default SUSE setting +and install the upstream version: ImageMagick-config-7-SUSE must be +replaced by ImageMagick-config-7-upstream. + +More information can be found in this announcement: + +https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00010.html + +More information on ImageMagick security settings can be found here: + +https://imagemagick.org/script/security-policy.php -If you want to enable some disabled functionality, you can edit the settings in /etc/ImageMagick-7, if you know what you are doing. An alternative is to remove the package with the default SUSE setting and install the upstream version: ImageMagick-config-7-SUSE must be replaced by ImageMagick-config-7-upstream.