Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2008-01-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Well apparently this one won't pass with the attachments... I can post them privately. OTTH, if someone could send me (possibly off-list) a _working_ example, I'd like to try and see if it works on my own install too! I use GMANE's news feed to read the list, and my luck

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Well apparently this one won't pass with the attachments... I can post them privately. OTTH, if someone could send me (possibly off-list) a _working_ example, I'd like to try and see if it works on my own install too! On Tuesday 01 January 2008 Paul A. Rubin wrote: [...] > > 2) I was able to

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2008-01-01 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
On Monday 31 december 2007 Paul A. Rubin wrote: [...] > > The error message is getting truncated, which I find a tad annoying. It's the kind of dialog box you can't resize... > You might try the following. Open the document in LyX, preview and get > the error message. With LyX still running

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2008-01-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: On Monday 31 december 2007 Paul A. Rubin wrote: [...] The error message is getting truncated, which I find a tad annoying. It's the kind of dialog box you can't resize... Yes. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply fault on your part. This happens frequently with LyX errors.

RE: A little trouble with EPS figures

2008-01-01 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
On Monday 31 december 2007 Paul A. Rubin wrote: [...] > > The error message is getting truncated, which I find a tad annoying. It's the kind of dialog box you can't resize... > You might try the following. Open the document in LyX, preview and get > the error message. With LyX still running

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: [sorry for the repost -- previous mail did not reach the list?] Thanks, Paul, for the detailed reply. You're welcome. - PDF previewing gives the following error: An error occurred while running epstopdf --outfile='0_home_daniel_Images_intpar0.p

RE: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
[sorry for the repost -- previous mail did not reach the list?] Thanks, Paul, for the detailed reply. I decided to try a brand new install, Linux + LyX (I'm testing... I can afford this) Linux is now Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 2 (testing again). LyX is 1.5.2., installed with Synaptic. I found a (meta)pac

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2007 killermike wrote: Thanks, now I was able to create an entry EPS -> PDF (pstopdf) (same as in my Windows install). But what should be the command line? The one under Windows, which is "epstopdf --outfile=$$o $$i", does not work. What

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
On Thursday 27 December 2007 killermike wrote: > > To add a new converter, alter one of the existing converters. This will > un-grey the add button, without altering the original converter. Thanks, now I was able to create an entry EPS -> PDF (pstopdf) (same as in my Windows install).

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-27 Thread killermike
On Thursday 27 December 2007 11:11:03 Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > > ... I'd love to do that, but how do I use the "converter" tab in the > preferences? In particular, the "add" button is grayed, and don't know > how to fill the command line. To add a new converter, alter one of the existing converter

Re: A little trouble with EPS figures

2007-12-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel CLEMENT wrote: More newbie questions... I'm trying LyX under Windows (my current install) and Linux (I'm about to migrate). Under Windows, so far, so good. Under Linux, I have two issues, apparently related: When I open a document with EPS figures, I don see them in the LyX window. Inst