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From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: File format extension
Stephen P. Harris wrote:
In my case I wanted a new .ps viewer. I changed the format to ps2.
I set the extension field to ps the GUI name to Gscript and the viewer
executable to flps. It worked just like you said it would. Thank you.
Incidentally, if you're interested in just changing the Viewer, why not
just change the Viewer of the existing ps format?
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Angus
Hello Angus,
Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your
advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather
than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file
is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting
from C:\documents and settings. Then double-click on it to
invoke a text editor. I have to set my Windows search tool
on display "hidden files and folders" or Search won't report
finding the preference file that needs editing. A small thing but
this really aggravated somebody who didn't know about it.
I want to have gsview32 open a file, dvi --> ps and then save
it in C:\lyx\lyx\bin\tmp where I keep flps.exe, a ghostscript
powered annotator for postscript. So sometimes I would
use flpsed, enough to have another viewer, but I didn't want
to use it in place of gsview32.
I wanted to save the dvi --> ps created file with gsview32
and save it to where flpsed could read it. flpsed doesn't seem
to be able to read that distant lyxtmpbufdir where those
conversions are stored. And flpsed keeps defualting to that
distant spot, whereas I would have like for it to default to
C:\lyx\lyx\bin\tmp where gsview32 first stores the file.
So I fiddled with the paths and now get flpsed to open
up with just a little appendage to the path which I can
backspace over. Works ok, but I doubt it saves more
than 2 seconds over invoking flpsed outside of Lyx
and have it open to the default directory that I want.
Now that I've done this much work on it though, I
am certainly going to use flpsed from inside Lyx! :-)
flps.exe would be better if its comments were captured
in a balloon like Jurgen's example. And it needs at
least yellow highlighting functionality which the Linux
flpsed already has (yang yang's page). flps.exe is 500k
and unfortunately doesn't work on win98 just win XP.
It provides erasable and replyable text comments to be
included on postscript docs and requires ghostscript.
I started testing by following your suggestion up above.
Regards,
Stephen
