Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for this. By following your instructions I managed to a) see the pdf in lyx on screen and b) generate a DVI file. But the place where the pdf should be is empty. If however I c) try to generate a pdf from pdflatex, lyx just goes into an endless loop, from which I can only exit by forcing a

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-22 Thread Kamran SHAFQAT
On 22/03/2010 15:52, Richard Brown wrote: External Files> PDF and select my pdf. I add the pages options for all of the pages (there are 2). Lyx burbles a little, and then spits the error message at me: error converting to loadable format. The file was prepared by a friend on Windows from a

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Richard Brown wrote: I do > Insert External Files > PDF and select my pdf. I add the pages options for all of the pages (there are 2). Lyx burbles a little, and then spits the error message at me: error converting to loadable format. The file was prepared by a

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manveru schrieb: However on one of CTAN mirrors there is 8.71: ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/GPL/gs871/ Has anyone know whether mentioned bug is corrected in 8.71? This bug should be fixed in 8.71. regards Uwe

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Manveru
2010/3/4 Stephen Buonopane > - Original Message - > >I have a horrible feeling I have asked this before, but on Ubuntu 9.10 > >Lyx won't show PDF images in the document (they compile OK). > > >They show up on Windows OK, so I assume its some set up on Linux that I > >need to tweak. >

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
- Original Message - >I have a horrible feeling I have asked this before, but on Ubuntu 9.10 >Lyx won't show PDF images in the document (they compile OK). >They show up on Windows OK, so I assume its some set up on Linux that I >need to tweak. -- If you have ghostscript

Re: PDF error converting to loadable format

2010-03-04 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:58 +, Graham Smith wrote: > I have a horrible feeling I have asked this before, but on Ubuntu 9.10 > Lyx won't show PDF images in the document (they compile OK). The same (almost) here. In my case most of the ".pdf"s won't appear but a few will do. But, as you say, th