Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-06-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Michael Gerz wrote: > IOW we should move from dvipdfm to dvipdfmx? This is already done. If dvipdfmx is installed, LyX uses that. Else, it falls back to dvipdfm. Jürgen

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-06-03 Thread Michael Gerz
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Herbert Voss wrote: -> XeTeX So dvipdfmx is still the right thing to choose, unless people use XeTeX (where they currently need to change the converters manually anyway). Jürgen IOW we should move from dvipdfm to dvipdfmx? Michael

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-31 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 26 May 2007 17:33:48 Herbert Voss wrote: > I never used it but I suppose, that using xdvipdfmx doesn't hurt, it > does the same and it can handle unicode. Is that a viewer or a converter? > Herbert -- José Abílio

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: >> -> XeTeX > > So dvipdfmx is still the right thing to choose, unless people use XeTeX > (where > they currently need to change the converters manually anyway). I never used it but I suppose, that using xdvipdfmx doesn't hurt, it does the same an

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Herbert Voss wrote: > -> XeTeX So dvipdfmx is still the right thing to choose, unless people use XeTeX (where they currently need to change the converters manually anyway). Jürgen

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: >>> dvipdfmx is neither useless nor outdated: >>> http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/ >> dvipdfm is useless ... > > But we use dvipdfmx (if available). > >> there is also a xdvipdfmx > > what's its benefit? -> XeTeX Herbert

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Herbert Voss wrote: > > dvipdfmx is neither useless nor outdated: > > http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/ > > dvipdfm is useless ... But we use dvipdfmx (if available). > there is also a xdvipdfmx what's its benefit? Jürgen

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Michael Gerz wrote: >> I wonder whether we should drop the dvipdfm path for 1.5.X. Is anybody >> actually using this (possibly outdated) tool? Offering tree ways to >> generate PDF may cause more confusion than it brings benefits. > > No. > dvipdfmx is neither useless n

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Michael Gerz wrote: > I wonder whether we should drop the dvipdfm path for 1.5.X. Is anybody > actually using this (possibly outdated) tool? Offering tree ways to > generate PDF may cause more confusion than it brings benefits. No. dvipdfmx is neither useless nor outdated: http://project.ktug.or.k

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-26 Thread Michael Gerz
Neal Becker schrieb: Oh, I did get an answer. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the message right now, but the answer is, that I need to make that agr->pdf instead of agr->pdf2. There was also a discussion that the use of pdf{,2,3} was really a broken design. I wonder whether we shoul

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-23 Thread Richard Heck
Neal Becker wrote: > Oh, I did get an answer. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the message > right now, but the answer is, that I need to make that agr->pdf instead of > agr->pdf2. > > There was also a discussion that the use of pdf{,2,3} was really a broken > design. > It is confusing, b

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-23 Thread Neal Becker
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, you wrote: > Neal Becker schrieb: > > lyx-1.5b3. I added: > > \converter "agr" "pdf2" "gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF > > $$i 2>/dev/null" "" > > > > But it's not being used when I choose 'view pdflatex'. Instead, I get: > > > > An error occurred whilst run

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Neal Becker schrieb: lyx-1.5b3. I added: \converter "agr" "pdf2" "gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF $$i 2>/dev/null" "" But it's not being used when I choose 'view pdflatex'. Instead, I get: An error occurred whilst running epstopdf --outfile='6_home_nbecker_shannon2_hg_8ps ERR

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
José Matos wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 11:45:16 am Neal Becker wrote: >> lyx-1.5b3. I added: >> \converter "agr" "pdf2" "gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF >> $$i 2>/dev/null" "" >> >> But it's not being used when I choose 'view pdflatex'. Instead, I get: >> >> How do I convince l

Re: 1.5b3 grace->pdf problems

2007-05-18 Thread José Matos
On Friday 18 May 2007 11:45:16 am Neal Becker wrote: > lyx-1.5b3. I added: > \converter "agr" "pdf2" "gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF $$i > 2>/dev/null" "" > > But it's not being used when I choose 'view pdflatex'. Instead, I get: > > How do I convince lyx to use agr->pdf2 instead