Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Dear Listler,
After a vacation and hiatus I am back on the list. The book project that
I have been working on (forever, it seems) will soon go to the printer.
Today I got back the following comments after they looked at a small
sample of our LyX file (the publisher's designer was unfamiliar with
LyX and LaTeX and passed my sample file along directly to the printer):
... we were able to produce a PDF with this file, but there were some
error messages which need to be cleared up. Ideal would be
to know the system environment, fonts, LyX version, LaTex
version, OS, etc.
Additionally we got error messages about double bookmarks.
Do these notes trigger any warning signs from those of you who have
already gone done this path?
They actually took a lyx file? Interesting!
I have written a book in LyX, but I sent the publisher a pdf directly.
There is a package for cropmarks, which publishers like to have.
There are three different ways of making pdf in lyx, which work with
varying success. The fastest is "pdflatex", the slowest is "pdf".
Both tends to work well. The middle option, "dvipdfm", produced
a pdf that didn't work in the publishers acrobat on windows. It was
ok in acrobat on linux though.
So if they have problems with the PDF file itself, have them try
a different way of making pdf.
To get the latex version, use the command
latex --version
For font information, load the pdf into acrobat which have the menu
file->document properties->fonts
It will show you what fonts the pdf uses.
I have never heard of the double bookmarks. Are you using the
hyperref package, which makes pdf bookmarks? I am not sure that
this matters at all if the book is to be printed, but could be a problem
if you're also publishing as pdf.
Helge Hafting
