Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-13 Thread Thomas
Hello all Today i installed the lyx basic installer from lyx ftp site and the problem is solved there. Furthermore there are some graphical issues which gives lyx a better look and feel under vista. Thanks to the developers. Regards Thomas On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:45:06 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAI

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: Can you just answer me that one question. Then i will debug the stuff and maybe i'll find the reason. The path is given to PDFViewWin by LyX. PDFViewWin doesn't change it, it takes the path and test if there is really a PDF to start its actions. You find the source code of

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:35:05 +0200, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, i tried a little bit and if i call hte pdfviewwin inside a console with > exactly the given path which is printed in the dialog box the same window > appears. > > That assured my opinion that pdfviewwin dont recieve a

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: As I said, your solution does not work always fine with Acrobat Standard 7.0. If the LyX document is the only one opened in Acrobat, everything is ok. However, if there are other documents opened in Acrobat, the LyX document is updated, but it is shown from the first page. C

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Nicolás
Using the PDFViewWin.exe (and related files) that come with Uwe's installer (v1.5.1) I experience the following: - Acrobat Standard 7.0: PDF-View works fine. To update the view, I run again PDF-View. The document is updated in Acrobat and sometimes, but only sometimes, the updated document is

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: Using the pdfview.exe (and related files) that come with the official installer (v1.5.1) I experience the following with both Acrobat Standard 7.0 and Acrobat Reader 8.1: -PDFLatex-View works fine -PDFLatex-View-Update does NOT work. The document is recompiled, but the buffe

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Nicolás
The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in Acrobat. Unfortunately there is a bug in Acroread 8.0.x that opened files could not be closed. We therefore built in a workaround. It seems that this workaraound doesn't work with Adobe Reader 8.1. I'll check this. You can

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
Okay, i tried a little bit and if i call hte pdfviewwin inside a console with exactly the given path which is printed in the dialog box the same window appears. That assured my opinion that pdfviewwin dont recieve a correct path. Who is calling this file? lyx itself or a python script? Thomas

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:40:23 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas schrieb: > >>> OK, this has nothing to do with acroread/acrobat. Could you please check if >>> the Path given in the >>> error dialogs exists. If yes, is there the PDF-file XXX-preview.pdf. >> >> Yes, the path exist

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: OK, this has nothing to do with acroread/acrobat. Could you please check if the Path given in the error dialogs exists. If yes, is there the PDF-file XXX-preview.pdf. Yes, the path exists and there is also a pdf file named like my document and containg my compiled lyx stuff,

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:44:52 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas schrieb: > >>> > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. >>> >>> What is the exact error message (screenshot)? >> >> Of course i can give you a screenshot. See the Appendix. > > OK, this has nothin

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. What is the exact error message (screenshot)? Of course i can give you a screenshot. See the Appendix. OK, this has nothing to do with acroread/acrobat. Could you please check if the Path given in the error dialog

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
Damn i forgot something to write. today i installed the 1.5.1 on another PC. OS on this PC is XP SP2 and with actual acrobat reader 8.1 . Lyx is working fine there and there is now problem with pdf-preview. Thomas

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:52:41 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas schrieb: > > > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. > > What is the exact error message (screenshot)? Of course i can give you a screenshot. See the Appendix. > >> Do you have any idea, why

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in Acrobat. Unfortunately there is a bug in Acroread 8.0.x that opened files could not be closed. We therefore built in a workaround. It seems that this workaraound doesn't work with Adobe Reader 8.1. I'll chec

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. What is the exact error message (screenshot)? Do you have any idea, why pdfviewwin.exe can't access the previewfile? The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in Acrobat. Unfortunately there

Re: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:09:37 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas schrieb: > >> "TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!" > > This happens when configure.py was not successful. There was once a bug in > MiKTeX that caused this > but as you have the latest MiKTeX 2.6 installed,

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: "TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!" This happens when configure.py was not successful. There was once a bug in MiKTeX that caused this but as you have the latest MiKTeX 2.6 installed, this can't be the reason. But you tell that latex.exe is running consuming all the C

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-07 Thread Thomas
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:29:11 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas schrieb: > >> Then i tried to start but it won't work. So i looked a little bit around >> what can de the reason for this bad start of lyx. After copying the >> textclass.lst from the binary dir to my appdata dir l

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: Then i tried to start but it won't work. So i looked a little bit around what can de the reason for this bad start of lyx. After copying the textclass.lst from the binary dir to my appdata dir lyx starts correctly and i can work with it. But if i want to make a preview in pdf

Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-07 Thread Thomas
Hello Today i tried to install the new lyx 1.5.1. For this i downloaded first the lyxwininstaller from berlios project page and let it run. After installing und updating all parts lyx needs i updated miktex to the actual state. Then i tried to start but it won't work. So i looked a little bit ar