I've found something that seems to me a bug in the External Material import resource when loading a XFig figure into lyx.
My .fig figures reside inside a path that contains both spaces and accented characters. When that's the case, instant preview is not able to create the eps. As soon as the doc is loaded into lyx, instant preview tries to process the xfig file, but then the following error message appears in /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.xxx/lyx_tmpbufx/0lyxpreview.log: ====================================== ! LaTeX Error: File `0_home_rudi_doc_UFRGS_Disciplinas_Gradua____o_F__sica_Mate m__tica_II_Apostila_figs_Riley-f10-11.pstex_t' not found. ======================================= The "___" bits contain both spaces and the accented letters. With this error, all instant preview actions fail. Even the equations are no longer rendered. However, pdflatex or xelatex are still able to process and generate the pdf. Only instant preview fails. On the other hand, if I move all files to a regular directory (~/temp for instance), everything works as supposed. So, the problem lies in folders named with non-english characters. -- Rudi Gaelzer Institute of Physics Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741
