Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:05:51 +0100
From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: External Xfig inset conversion fails
On 9/13/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues
(LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir).
It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell
while others launch from the file manager (I created an association between the
file
type and the application on the Solaris application server).
I can reproduce it by launching from a mail attachment.
Is this an explanation, and is this behaviour known ? I see nothing in bugzilla.
LyX-1.4.2-qt/Solaris
I do not use Solaris, but something similar to what you describe
occurs if I try to insert the *.pstex and not the *.fig file itself.
Are you sure that your colleagues are not doing that?
The output from the *same* file loaded from the command shell and from the file
manager (dtfile)
is OK with the first method and fails with the second one.
I filed a bug (#2838) with a minimal test example.
Just to get the obvious out of the way:
You are aware that the .fig file isn't included into the .lyx file?
I.e. you need to distribute both the .lyx and the .fig for this to work.
That is why it is called an "external" inset - the file exist outside of
lyx and referencing it does not change that fact.
Also, this is easiest if the .fig is in the same directory as the .lyx,
so that the .fig file is included without a path. If there is a path,
then the .fig file must be placed on exactly the same path
on each computer where you try to use lyx.
Helge Hafting
