On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Walter <walter.stan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Due to a recent change in hardware, I have just tried to load my book > on to LyX for Mac. > > Upon opening the file I get two errors about missing elements: > - document.cls
This suggests to me that you haven't installed LaTeX. The easiest way on Mac is to install MacTeX (http://www.tug.org/mactex/). Then reconfigure LyX, restart, and it should recognize document.cls and allow you to generate .pdfs. > - languages module This may be in your user's directory on your Linux machine (~/.lyx) and if so should be moved to the appropriate location on Mac (~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0). BH > Is this expected, and how do I remedy? > > I'm pretty inexperienced with macs, but believe I should have copied > all of the resources that went along with the original document to the > new machine's filesystem, at the same relative locations (ie: parent > directory and all within). > > Right now I am able to edit, but not generate PDF output. In addition > to the above errors on opening the file, an attempt to render gives > me: > "No information on how to convert SVG files to PNG". > > The imagmagick installation seems to require MacPorts which > seems to require XCode which is opening a whole can of worms. > > Thanks for any pointers! > > - Walter >
