Thanks for your advice. I did as you suggested and found the DVI->Postscript converter missing so I specfied a new one with dvips -o $$o $$i and got the View->PDF back. But then View->PDF gave me errors! In desperation I reinstalled Lyx 1.3.6 and everything worked. The DVI->Postscript converter showed dvips -o $$o $$i; so I don't know what was wrong. I think the lesson at this stage is NOT to Edit->Reconfigure. I have a thesis due out in two weeks so these problems tend to give me the horrors! I've been using Lyx for the past couple of years and, overall, it is an excellent publishing tool.
Thanks again, Roger On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 02:07 am, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Roger McMurtrie wrote: > > The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu. > > I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit->reconfigure. > > I have also recently added the Edit->Change tracking patch which seems to > > be working fine. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Roger > > Two possibilities: either LyX lost the name of the viewer to use, or it > lost the ability to produce PDF output. > > First thing to check is Edit->Preferences->File formats->PDF and see if > the Viewer: field is filled in. If not, insert the name of the viewer > there, click Modify and then Save, and see if life gets better. I use > Acrobat Reader, and I can type in just "acrord32" (minus the quotes) and > have it work. Others, though, have reported that it doesn't work on > their systems, and they have to type a full path to it. If you need the > full path, and if the path contains spaces, I think you'll need to > enclose it in double quotes (but I'm not positive). Note that if this > is the problem, you may need to do the same for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF > (dvipdfm). > > If the viewer field is correctly filled in, check whether File->Export > lists PDF as an option. If not, LyX has lost track of how to generate a > PDF. Have a look in Edit->Preferences->Converters. The usual route for > "plain" PDF (as opposed to the other two PDF options) is > LyX->LaTeX->DVI->Postscript->PDF prior to version 1.3.6, > LyX->LaTeX->DraftDVI->DVI->Postscript->PDF as of version 1.3.6. The > first step (LyX->LaTeX) is built in, but you'll need converters for each > of the remaining steps. The Postscript->PDF converter on my system > reads "ps2pdf13 $$i" (in the Converter: field). You'll need to recreate > any missing converters (or provide some other sequence that gets from > LaTeX to PDF). > > HTH, > > Paul
