Ehud Kaplan wrote:
This must be simple for the experts, but it puzzles me:
I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on
both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine,
both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx
1.6.1) it fails to compile (View-->pdflatex), returning an errors.
The exact error messages may be of help.
However, if on that machine the pdf figures are replaced by their eps
equivalents, all is fine.
pdflatex is supposed to handle pdf figures - witout any conversion.
The other ways of producing PDF (dvipdfm and ps2pdf) needs eps files.
First, check to make sure that you really did use view->PDF(pdflatex) on
the failing machine. Make sure it isn't view->PDF(ps2pdf) or
view->PDF(dvipdfm).
If the failing machine don't have pdflatex, then lyx will still offer
the other two alternatives for PDF.
This could also be a path problem. Check that pdflatex is in the path on
both machines, i.e. the command "pdflatex" is recognized on the command
line on both machines. Having the software is not enough, the PATH
setting must be right too.
Helge Hafting
