Re: Lyx and PS export from StarOffice

2000-07-04 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:37:15 -0200 >>From: Aleksandr Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Fred C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Lyx and PS export from StarOffice >> >>Fred C wrote: >>> I tried to copy/paste that Starcalc graphic into Stardraw to eventually >>> e

Re: Lyx and PS export from StarOffice

2000-07-04 Thread Aleksandr Konstantinov
Fred C wrote: > I tried to copy/paste that Starcalc graphic into Stardraw to eventually > export it in Postscript but the result could neither be opened by Gimp > nor by Ghostview :-(( Hello. What version of ghostscript do you use (gs -v) ? I had similar problem with staroffice postscripts and

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-04 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Rachel, I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble: \usepackage{ae} \usepackage{aecompl} and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows: #\font_encodi

reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-04 Thread Fred C
Didn't find an EASY (I'm not a nerd) to use answer for that common question : How can i reduce the monstrous size of .eps pictures to be inserted in my thesis written with LyX 1,0,4 on Linux 2,2,13? A simple color picture of Linus in jpeg makes 17 kb, saved as grayscaled .eps it results in an hor

Lyx and PS export from StarOffice

2000-07-04 Thread Fred C
Hi i am a non techie who uses the excellent LyX (1.0.4 pre 2) on a Linux 2.2.13 (Mandrake 6.1) to write my thesis. I would like to know how I could insert some StarCalc spreadsheet graphic? I tried to copy/paste that Starcalc graphic into Stardraw to eventually export it in Postscript but the resu

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-04 Thread Paul Borgermans
Rachel, I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier versions too): 1) put \usepackage{pslatex} in the latex preamble (see Layout-> LaTeX preamble) or 2) sele

poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-04 Thread Rachel Greenham
I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine, look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published" on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrob

Re: Latex error "missing \begin{document}"

2000-07-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Bob Nagler wrote: > > When I write a new article I get always the error message at the > beginning of the document: > Latex error "missing \begin{document}" > I do not have this problem with old files, although there text > contents is similar. Does anybody know how to remedy? look at your latex

Latex error "missing \begin{document}"

2000-07-04 Thread Bob Nagler
When I write a new article I get always the error message at the beginning of the document: Latex error "missing \begin{document}" I do not have this problem with old files, although there text contents is similar. Does anybody know how to remedy? Thanks, Bob   --  ---

Re: latex2rtf

2000-07-04 Thread Tommi Rintala
> >>1) umlauts (\a") at latin-1 document didn't convert correctly, this I > >>will And the correction for this is to append (rtf)charater codes for filter to file direct.cfg, so that it knows how to convert special charaters. (or the correct answer would be to use -l flag...) > >>2) EPS figure