On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Brian Bulger <brianbul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Hi Brian, Does sumatraPDF work for you? Many Windows users prefer to use that with LyX over Acrobat. Scott
