On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:25 +0000, José Matos wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 7:37:13 am Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > > > I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the > > > > semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter > > > > in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this > ...
> > I get the same for pdf output no matter what I set for the margins, when > > I use Acrobat. When I use xpdf, it looks great. When I use gv it does > > not work. I don't understand the pdf differences, but do know that my > > students (from Windows land, with nary a glimpse at much beyond > > Word/Acrobat) won't get the proper layout. > > > > ??? very frustrating. > > Which path (alternative) do you use to generate the pdf? > > pdflatex > dvipdfm > ps2pdf > > other? > ... dvipdfm is the only one to give something that works properly in xpdf. The other two generate something which (in xpdf) appears to be a4 sized (it runs off the page). None display/print as desired in acrobat. gv cannot display the dvi, but does display the pdf file properly. It doesn't print out properly though (portrait or landscape mode gives a portrait print, with the table off the edge). I had just switched over to texlive in the past few weeks to be able to use some of the packages associated with it. Is there a chance this is a problem with that end of things? > > ps. what the heck is "xdg-open?" It keeps popping up iceweasel to > > display something, which is a very wasteful move. I'm slowly changing > > various format viewers over to what I expect for them--it's faster, more > > intelligent (IMHO), and not irritating. > > Please report the bug to Debian. IIRC the Debian maintainer is very > responsive and is reads regularly this list. > What kind of bug is this though? I use fluxbox normally, kde apps on occasion, and gnome is for my wife. I need to read the docs with that, since it may be something that the user needs to adjust. Is it something that LyX requires? Or does LyX use what it finds while configuring itself? Thanks for the help! Kenward > xdg-open is the freedesktop route to an automatic viewer. It uses the > system > (desktop environment) default to use the different kind of files. As an > example I use kde, as my pdf viewer is kpdf I would like that lyx would use > that as the default without having to configure it everytime I install it in > a new machine. > > -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
