Thank you all for your responses. I will just leave it with the comment that this is a functionality that I would definitely be interested in, if it were to be incorporated in some future version of lyx.
-Gwen On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr> wrote: > You can use File/Export/PdfLatex (or another format, if you prefer). > The PDF file will be generated and saved in the same folder es the LyX > file. > > Murat > > 2010/9/21 Gwen Barnes <gwen.bar...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > When I hit the button on the lyx toolbar to either view or update the > pdf, > > the pdf gets created in a temporary location. Is there a way to get it > to > > automatically save the pdf to my current working directory? I'd hate to > > accidentally submit an old version of my document because I forgot to do > > "save as" from my pdf viewer or "export" from lyx after my last edit; I > > certainly don't want to be doing that constantly as I am working. I > haven't > > been able to find any settings that will let me change the pdf location. > > Have I just missed them, or is there some work-around way to do this? > > > > -Gwen > > > >