On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:51:38 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell Davie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How is it possible to have a automatic update of pdf file so the pdf can > > viewed as the lyx file is been created? > > > > Are there command line options that can be set that would enable this? > > > > My plan is, if possible, to have a cron job calling a script to generate > > pdf from lyx which is then displayed on a viewer: kpdf which can watch for > > changes in pdf. > > lyx -e pdf2 xxx.lyx > > See also `lyx --help' and `man lyx'. This does also work with all other > exportable formats. pdf2 is the name of the "PDF (pdflatex)" format. See > the preferences for the names of other formats. > > > Georg > I tried that and it complained about jpeg images that were in the lyx file. terminal output: LyX: LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .jpeg.: ...aching_graphics_pulse-radial-artery.jpeg} The would not happen if turning into a pdf using lyx manually (with mouse clicks) with all the different ways of making a pdf dvipdf, pdflatex, ps2pdf What did work was to turn it into a ps, then use ps2pdf to make a pdf lyx -e ps XXX.lyx ; ps2pdf XXX.ps While this worked on the command line, it didn't work as a cron job. The cron command would only do the first section and would not do ps2pdf (?). ps2pdf would not work as a cron job even as a separate cron command! cron entry: 0-59 * * * * /usr/local/bin/lyx1.4.2 -e ps /tmp/xxx.lyx ; /usr/bin/ps2pdf /tmp/xxx.ps This soon fills up the inbox with messages and to stop it add ">>/dev/null 2>&1" after /tmp/xxx.lyx and before ";". I searched the wiki for documentation on the command line use of Lyx and coln't find much. Where else could this be found? TIA Russell
