diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index a7107e6dc9..0cffce95da 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-03-23  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
+
+	* scripts/convertDefault.sh: remove the test that "convert" really,
+	really succeeded, because it reports failures on Windows that are
+	actually successes. See, eg,
+	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-users&m=110561697803860&w=2
+
 2005-03-17  Georg Baum  <Georg.Baum@post.rwth-aachen.de>
 
 	* reLyX/syntax.default: update natbib/jurabib commands, add
diff --git a/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh b/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
index 3b4c720b03..c6240e5319 100644
--- a/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
+++ b/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
@@ -20,18 +20,3 @@ convert -depth 8 "$1" "$2" || {
 	echo "Execution of \"convert\" failed."
 	exit 1
 }
-
-# It appears that convert succeeded, but we know better than to trust it ;-)
-# convert is passed strings in the form "FMT:FILENAME", so use the ':' to
-# delimit the two parts.
-# Note that Win32 filenames have the form 'C:\my\file',
-# so use everything from the first ':' to the end of the line.
-FILE=`echo "$2" | cut -d ':' -f 2-`
-
-test -f "$FILE" || {
-	echo "$0 ERROR"
-	echo "Unable to find file \"${FILE}\""
-	exit 1
-}
-
-echo "$0 generated file \"${FILE}\" successfully."