On 03/09/2017 06:08 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote:
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com
<mailto: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We suspect it is a problem with outdated MikTeX packages, but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than outdated) MiKTeX packages, I filed a ticket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/ticket/10591
<https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/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
For LaTeX packages, I suspect so. In fact, just grepping the log for
.sty and .cls files would seem to do the trick. Missing converters are a
separate problem. I just tried to compile the Introduction (success) and
Tutorial (failure) on my laptop. Turns out my laptop was lacking
librsvg2-bin (since fixed). I think (not sure) I saw a bug in Trac
suggesting that the installation script write out a list of recommended
tools it failed to find.
- Paul
