Exporting works fine. LyX creates the pdf file and I can open it in Acrobat. For some reason the preview doesn't work properly.
Thanks. On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 07/31/2015 01:15 PM, Brian Bulger wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> On 07/30/2015 06:22 PM, Brian Bulger wrote: >> >>> Problem description located at the bottom. >>> >>> Version of LyX: 2.1.3 >>> System: Windows 7 >>> Other software: Acrobat version 2015.008.20082 >>> I don't know what is meant by listing libraries installed on the system. >>> >>> I followed the beginning instructions to the Tutorial to create my first >>> LyX document. I did everything it says trying each of the CTRL+R options >>> (the toolbar button, the menu option and the shortcut keys). None of them >>> work properly; Acrobat opens but does nothing visible and I find no files >>> named newfile1.* other than my LyK document, newfile1.lyk. >>> >>> Any assitance would be appreciated. >>> >> >> Please open the messages pane (View> Messages Pane) and then try >> previewing using whatever method you like. Copy and paste the output from >> the messages pane into a reply to this message. >> >> Maybe it's best to try previewing the Tutorial itself. Then we know we >> have a valid document. >> >> Richard >> >> > 12:13:42.139: Previewing ... > > 12:13:42.167: (buffer-view: Ctrl+R) > > 12:13:42.206: pdflatex "newfile1.tex" > > 12:13:42.833: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9) > > 12:13:42.834: entering extended mode > > 12:13:42.836: > > 12:13:42.837: > (C:\Users\BCBulger\AppData\Local\temp\lyx_tmpdir.ycBAmSDyv608\lyx_tmpbuf0\newfi > > 12:13:42.838: le1.tex > > 12:13:42.840: LaTeX2e <2011/06/27> > > 12:13:42.842: Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, > afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar > > 12:13:42.844: abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, > bulgarian, catalan, coptic, > > 12:13:42.846: croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, > finnish, french, ga > > 12:13:42.849: lician, german, german-x-2013-05-26, greek, gujarati, hindi, > hungarian, iceland > > 12:13:42.851: ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, > kurmanji, latin, latvian, > > 12:13:42.853: lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, > monogreek, ngerman, n > > 12:13:42.855: german-x-2013-05-26, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, > polish, portuguese, roman > > 12:13:42.857: ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, > swedish, swissgerm > > 12:13:42.859: an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, > uppersorbian, usengl > > 12:13:42.861: ishmax, welsh, loaded. > > 12:13:42.863: > > 12:13:42.944: pdfview "newfile1.pdf" > > > This all looks correct, though I'm not sure about the last line. That > doesn't look like a Windows command. So it appears to me as if the problem > is with how Acrobat is being called. > > Please try exporting instead of previewing: File> Export> PDF (pdflatex). > This should create the file newfile1.pdf in the same directory as > newfile1.lyx. See if you can view it. If so, that will confirm that Acrobat > is the issue. > > Richard > > PS Please reply to the list. I'm not on Windows and so may run out of > ideas. > >
