diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 6364a7d4e0..3db753d324 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-04-15  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
+
+	* scripts/convertDefault.sh: post error messages to STDERR. 
+
 2005-04-09  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
 
 	* Makefile.am (dist_scripts_DATA): add scripts/fig_copy.sh and
diff --git a/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh b/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
index c6240e5319..9c381f8342 100644
--- a/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
+++ b/lib/scripts/convertDefault.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 # converts an image from $1 to $2 format
 convert -depth 8 "$1" "$2" || {
-	echo "$0 ERROR"
-	echo "Execution of \"convert\" failed."
+	echo "$0 ERROR" >&2
+	echo "Execution of \"convert\" failed." >&2
 	exit 1
 }