[sorry for the repost -- previous mail did not reach the list?]
Thanks, Paul, for the detailed reply.
I decided to try a brand new install, Linux + LyX (I'm testing... I can
afford this)
Linux is now Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 2 (testing again). LyX is 1.5.2.,
installed with Synaptic.
I found a (meta)package called "texlive-all". I installed it. (Before it
was Tetex, as suggested in an older post, but I more or less understood
Texlive is newer and supersedes it).
texlive-all does include texlive-extra-utils.
I also installed the imagemagick package.
I tried, as you suggested, "which epstopdf" in a terminal. The output,
"/usr/bin/epstopdf", looks good AFAIK.
Now to the testing results:
- PS previewing is perfect.
- PDF previewing gives the following error:
An error occurred while running epstopdf
--outfile='0_home_daniel_Images_intpar0.p
--outfile='1_home_daniel_Images_intpar1.p
BUT the previewing is fine! The error occurs only the first time the
document is PDF-previewed. Even if it is modified, I get no other error
message unless I restart LyX. I assume something must be slightly wrong
in the EPS->PDF converter setup (command line is
epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i)
However, it's almost OK for previewing PDF. BUT...
- DVI previewing now gives some trouble. Previewing takes place in
Evince (good! it's much nicer than Tetex's XDVIK), but some (math)
characters are missing: integral signs, uppercase Greek and
miscellaneous symbols. Moreover, the graphics are missing, replace by a
thick black frame...
Well, I feel like I'm making progresses... This LyX install is almost
usable (if I print from PS rather than DVI). Yet, I'd like to get
everything right... but I guess that will wait until 2008.
Thanks again for the help and happy new year to all list members,
Daniel
