On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Henry J. P. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Michael Hanke wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Klaus Kragelund wrote:
> >
> > > 1. I insert a figure in the document - thats fine. But if I click on the
> > > figure to edit it sometimes I get multiple error (always 10 of them). It
> > > says something like this:
> > >
> > > LaTex Error: No counter 'sub' defined
> > > 1.780 {\centering\subfigure
> > > [myfigure]{resizebox*{0.8 bla bla bla
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > Undefined control sequence
> > > <argument> sub\@captype bla bla bla
> > >
> > > ect, ect
> > >
> > > what is going on ? I should mention that the ps figure file was created in
> > > Win95 with a "Print to File" - to a HP Laserjet.
>
> I am not really a LyX user (just a "wannabe" at the moment ;) ) but I do
> have some experience in bringing W95 PS files into a Unix environment (SGI
> IRIX). I presume that the "HP Laserjet" file is actually a PS file. If it
> is a PCL file it would be better if you installed a PS driver on W95. You
> don't need a PS printer to do this. Then using the PS driver (same as
> saying to W95 that is to print to the PS printer) print to a PS file. But
> maybe you are already doing this? I found that I had to edit Word97 PS
> files to remove some extraneous junk at the beginning and end of the file.
> (It's pretty obvious as the file doesn't begin with %PS-Adobe - or
> whatever it actually is - look at a good PS file created on Unix and you
> will see the differences easily) Once I did this the file went to UNIX and
> worked just fine. So maybe this is part of your problems? Don't know why
> M$ does these crazy things, violating Industry standards but they do...
>
> Note: if your PS files are one page figures, it would be better to convert
> them to EPS format. WIN-32 Ghostview allows you to do this easily. Look
> under the "File" menu. Can't say about the Unix GV but I think this option
> is there too.
There exist some ps-commands, that can't be translated so easyly to eps,
so that also ghostview win-32 will fail (I know that from my own
expierence). Then you need defenetly a EPS printer-driver !!!
Bernhard
>
> oNCE THEY ARE IN eps FORMAT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO INCLUDE THEM EASILY
> USING THE STANDard (oops hit caps lock - sorry 'bout that) LyX/LaTeX
> commands. I think this might be a better approach for you but....
>
> HTH and sorry can't help you on the RedHat stuff. Planning to go there but
> not there just yet.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Henry Smith
>
>
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