On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/08/2017 06:13 AM, Irene Dinah Wen wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm new to LaTeX/Lyx (LyX Version 2.2.2, Windows 10, installed in the
>> last few weeks), and I'm having some issues with printing to PDF that was
>> not addressed in the Introduction/Tutorials.  (at least I did not find it)
>>
>> (1) When I try viewing the introduction/tutorials as a PDF (Ctrl+R), an
>> error occurs.  I have not yet figured out what to do fix it.  The same
>> function works fine when I create a new document that only contains text
>> (i.e. "Hello World!")
>>
>> (2) When I tried adding a graphic (*.pdf) to the new document, it
>> encountered the same PDF error until my friend updated my MikTeX packages.
>> However, this has not solved the first issue.
>>
>> We suspect it is a problem with outdated MikTeX packages, but we're not
>> sure.  Hopefully this report helps!
>>
>> -Irene
>>
>> P.S. Thanks for the awesome work!
>>
> Under the assumption that this was a result of missing (rather than
> outdated) MiKTeX packages, I filed a ticket (https://www.lyx.org/trac/tick
> et/10591) suggesting that we document which LaTeX packages are required
> to compile each help document.
>

In the short term, is it sufficient to use View -> Source Pane -> Preamble
Only to see which \usepackage commands are issued and Document -> LaTeX Log
to see which versions were pulled in?

- Joel

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