Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stefano Franchi wrote:


Thanks Paul,

    the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, 
thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in 
either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is supposed 
to do to carry out the various conversions, but cannot find some 
relevant piece of software. Is there a way to get some more information 
on what is going on? I tried to start LyX in debug mode, but since I 
cannot trigger any "coverting" action, that's hardly helpful.


Stefano,

Does this mean that the DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF converters 
are correctly listed in the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog?  If 
so, is Ghostscript installed, and does the ps2pdf13 command run if 
invoked from the console?

When you say "nothing shows up" in the View and Export menus, do you 
mean just no way to View/Export PDF?  Or do you mean no way to 
View/Export a DVI as well?  If the latter, it might imply that LyX is 
having a hard time finding LaTeX.

If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then the 
next question is whether you can view/export PDFs using pdflatex or dvipdfm?

Paul