On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:25:22PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > When I got back to the meeting, I had the bright idea of > importing the file into Lyx, and then using its export=>PDF. (I > *did* not use the option export=> PDF_latex.) This worked. > > However, I would like to be able to convert directly from the > terminal. Can anyone tell me what filter Lyx uses? And does > anyone know why my first attempt at using pdflatex did not work? The second attempt didn't actually use pdflatex. Export => PDF doesn't use pdflatex, it uses latex to create a Postscript file, which is then converted to PDF. You can check on the filters used by looking at (checks LyX) Edit => Preferences and looking at the Converters tab. That window has two sub-tabs, Formats and Converters. The Formats tab defines various formats (gives them names, says what extension they use etc). The Converters tab is where the converters between various formats are defined. These converters are chained together until you get what you want. So, Export => PDF would go in this sequence: Latex -> DVI (latex) DVI -> Postscript (dvips) Postscript -> PDF (ps2pdf)
Export => PDF (pdflatex) just uses one step: Latex -> PDF (pdflatex) And one does get slightly different results depending on which one you use. Whether one works better than the other usually depends on the particular document. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bergman : You think everything is a conspiracy. Hippy : But it is. (The Abyss) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / \ | <http://www.katspace.com> \_.--.*/ | v | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe
