Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Lavaud Michel wrote: > According to the devs of Foxit reader, they consider it actually as a bug yes thats what i expected ;) pavel

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/21/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Ok, no problem, really. I don't understand why it is unnatural to have the > pdf in the same directory of the lyx file, as it is the usual TeX way ; and > The way I look at it I would agree with Pavel: View PDF is for temporary previewing purposes, while Export

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Lavaud Michel
Pavel Sanda a écrit : the correct way is to ask foxit devs why your pdf is not saved as-is or why it cant be read by acrobat. According to the devs of Foxit reader, they consider it actually as a bug in a preceding version. I downloaded and installed the latest one, and everything is OK now,

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Lavaud Michel
Pavel Sanda a écrit : Lavaud Michel wrote: I suggested to replace it with (View > Pdf (pdflatex)) + (File > Export > Pdf (pdflatex) ), no, you are trying to workaround foxit bug by tweaking lyx in an unnatural way. Ok, no problem, really. I don't understand why it is unnatural to h

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Well, I'd find the above suggestion more convenient that having to > manually save the file, and navigate via the GUI to the desired > directory, even though I don't have that bug. my point was only to state that this 'solution' wont be good in lyx trunk ;) pavel

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Lavaud Michel wrote: >> I suggested to replace it with (View > Pdf  (pdflatex)) + >> (File > Export > Pdf (pdflatex) ), > > no, you are trying to workaround foxit bug by tweaking lyx in an unnatural > way. > the correct way is to ask foxit de

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Lavaud Michel wrote: > I suggested to replace it with (View > Pdf (pdflatex)) + > (File > Export > Pdf (pdflatex) ), no, you are trying to workaround foxit bug by tweaking lyx in an unnatural way. the correct way is to ask foxit devs why your pdf is not saved as-is or why it cant be read by acro

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Lavaud Michel
Liviu Andronic a écrit : On 2/21/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: Another solution would be that LyX creates (or copy) by default the dvi and pdf outputs in the same directory of the LyX file, Do you mean the File > Export > PDF feature? Liviu Ah sorry, I was not precise enough! No, I wa

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/21/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Another solution would be that LyX creates (or copy) by default the dvi and > pdf outputs in the same directory of the LyX file, > Do you mean the File > Export > PDF feature? Liviu > as good ol' TeX. Could > that be implemented ? This would allow to use any pd

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader (final)

2010-02-21 Thread Lavaud Michel
The origin of my problem was the following : 1 - My default pdf viewer is Foxit Reader (because it is portable and has some nice extra features) 2 - I saved the pdf output of LyX with the option "Save as" of Foxit. For some strange reason, it turns out that Foxit does not save the file that wa

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-20 Thread Lavaud Michel
John McCabe-Dansted a écrit : with my LaTeX installation and it produces output readable by Acroread. And I compiled also the LaTeX export of my LyX test file (with File / Export / Latex (pdflatex)), and this produces also a pdf file readable by Acroread. So the problem does not come from my

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Yes, I compiled by hand > > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > Test de visualisation d'une sortie de LyX avec Acrobat Reader > \end{document} What if you run pdflatex on the attached TestAcroread2.tex and/or on the output of "Expor

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
Vincent van Ravesteijn a écrit : Yes of course, but let formulate the problem I described in more general terms : - If one types a document containing "Test" with Open Office, and export it in pdf, the pdf output can be viewed with all viewers, including AcroRead. - If one does the same th

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yes of course, but let formulate the problem I described in more general terms : - If one types a document containing "Test" with Open Office, and export it in pdf, the pdf output can be viewed with all viewers, including AcroRead. - If one does the same thing with LyX, the pdf output with t

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
John McCabe-Dansted a écrit : On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Lavaud Michel wrote: Hello, Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? Could you give t

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
John McCabe-Dansted a écrit : On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Lavaud Michel wrote: Hello, Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? Could you give t

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Hello, > > Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be > displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such > as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? Could you give the source LyX file, and say 1) W

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/19/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Unfortunately, this does not seem to solve the problem : the pdf file does > not display either with Acrobat Reader. > I couldn't help you much more further. Maybe this could [1]. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc19

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
Liviu Andronic a écrit : On 2/19/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: No, I don't do anything fancy, it occurs with the simplest documents and simplest treatment, typically : open a new document, type some text and click on the icon "Display pdf (Pdflatex)". Yes, the problem might be that you ke

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/19/10, Lavaud Michel wrote: > No, I don't do anything fancy, it occurs with the simplest documents and > simplest treatment, typically : open a new document, type some text and > click on the icon "Display pdf (Pdflatex)". > Yes, the problem might be that you keep the fonts to "default". Try

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
Liviu Andronic a écrit : On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Lavaud Michel wrote: Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? I can confirm that acroread c

Re: Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Lavaud Michel wrote: > Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be > displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such > as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? > I can confirm that acroread cannot display the contents of

Displaying pdf output of LyX with AcroReader

2010-02-19 Thread Lavaud Michel
Hello, Do somebody have an explanation why the pdf output of LyX cannot be displayed with Acrobat Reader, while it is displayed by other software such as FoxitReader, Xpdf and others? As Acrobat Reader is supposed to be the reference for displaying pdf, I find this very annoying (many correspo