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 We suspect it is a problem with outdated MikTeX packages, but we're not 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 outdated) MiKTeX packages, I filed a ticket (https://www.lyx.org/trac/tick 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