In a document that uses the pdflscape package to render landscape pages, I
recently got an error that I had not encountered before. When I tried to
compile the PDF (pdflatex), I got a LaTeX error that said something like
"ifxetex.sty not found" with details that made it clear that pdflscape was
the problem. I can't recall exactly what it said.

My first attempts were to track down and update lscape and pdflscape. lscape
comes in the graphics package and that was up to date (this is a recent
install of LyX and MikTeX). After some fruitless searching for how to get
pdflscape in MikTeX, I found that it was included in the oberdiek package,
and that was also up to date.

So, I went and updated my MikTeX packages (the only ones that needed
updating were authordate, floatflt, pdfpages, cm, caption, and babel) and
also installed the ifxetex package, and the problem went away. I don't think
any of the packages but ifxetex have anything to do with pdflscape. Why in
the world does a Windows installation of MikTeX and LyX care about Xetex --
a Mac TeX system?? Is this a new addition to the pdflscape package?

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David Hewitt
Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA)
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Student, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/
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