>>>>> "rab" == rab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rab> I asked the same question. I have three computers (work, home, rab> and laptop) and the same thing happens on all three. Someone rab> suggested turning on debugging using "lyx -dbg any" or "lyx -dbg rab> graphics". This shows that there is a problem in converting the rab> eps into pnm (if memory serves). Yet all the necessary software rab> is installed and functioning. LyX is set up to use "convert" from rab> ImageMagick. I can convert the eps files manually but it just rab> doesn't work in LyX. What is really funny is that if I load a LyX rab> help document, it displays the eps figures. We are certainly aware of some of these problems, but we have difficulties to understand what they actually are, and how to solve them. It seems that various version of various utilities do not mix well together (notice the precision of this statement %-|). This problem is one reason why 1.2.2 has not been released yet, although it contains many important fixes. But, as the maintainer of the 1.2.x versions, I cannot afford to spend much time on this problem. I just do what I can. Nevertheless, I hear the complaints on lyx-users :) rab> LyX 1.2.1 seems to have a lot of problems. I used to be able to rab> just install the latest version and everything would basically rab> work. With 1.2.1 now I also have trouble with the previewing of rab> the document. On my home PC, if I logged in as a regular user, rab> the preview worked OK (dvi, ps, and pdf). Yet if I would log in rab> as root, it would not work. This happens if latex is not configured properly for the user 'root', for example. I would be surprised if it was LyX' fault (but anything can happen...). rab> Another strange problem is viewing as html. I get an error rab> message about the document name if it has more than one ".". rab> Something about dvips not working in this case (although it has rab> always worked to do a dvi preview). If I rename the document so rab> it has only one ".", then it makes a nice html document and rab> displays it in netscape (4.79) using latex2html. This will be fixed in 1.2.2 rab> In some situations (I don't remember exactly), I would get an rab> error saying that netscape can't find the server. If I configure rab> LyX to use mozilla, I always get this error. Must have something rab> to do with writine the mozilla command to open a file. I have a fix for that that has been applied to the development version, and I will maybe apply it to 1.2.2, since we had many requests (I try to be conservative as to which fixes go to stable versions). rab> I imagine when LyX installs itself (I used an rpm), it looks for rab> helper programs and configures accordingly. But I have all of rab> them and they worked in 1.1.6fix3 so I'm not sure why things are rab> so flaky now. If it was just one machine, I could understand it rab> but not three (all running RH 8.0 - maybe it has to do with RH rab> 8.0). This has probably to do with the versions of some utilities shipped with rh8. Not necessarily that they are broken, but bad interaction. JMarc
