problems of a new user (win32)

[J. Kamerling]

Hello,   I read a lot about LyX and I was very interested in working with the program; I went to the webpages of Claus Hentschel and downloaded the complete package (Winport, version 1.1.5fix1); I installed everything according to the remarks on the webpages; still there are some problems 1. The option set_color in the lyxrc-file is not recognized; for example: I used: set_color background white; when starting LyX the following message appears in the DOS-box:  LyX: bad color tag: 'background' LyX: unknown tag: 'white' After this message LyX appears with the standard screen. When I type: 'set-color background white' on the grey commandline in LyX, a new background does appear. So this option does work. What am I doing wrong with set_color in the lyxrc-file? 2. There are problems with inline-viewing. I searched in the mailing-list, but I cannot find a solution. I have the following problems: When I open UserGuide.lyx (for example) the pictures mobius.eps and platypus.eps do not appear on the LyX-screen. I can only see a black rectangle.  a) When I click on the rectangle a new window appears and when I select in that window: 'full screen preview' I get the following GSView-errormessages: bad commandline option: /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx/doc/platypus.eps and error parsing command line. After these messages GSView starts but nothing appears in this program. I don't understand the messages: platypus.eps en mobius.eps are in the directory but it seems they cannot be found. b) When I choose in LyX the option File-View DVI or File-View Postscript I get, after the LaTeX-ing, mistakes at the place of the figures. I get the following messages: LaTeX error: cannot determine size of graphic in mobius.eps (no Bounding Box)                    ...ing\includegraphics {mobius.eps}                                                                 \par} LaTeX error: File 'platypus.eps' not found                    ...ing\includegraphics {mobius.eps}                                                                \par} Once again, I don't understand these messages. The eps-files do exist in the right directory. Can someone help me with these problems.   Thank you   Sjaak Kamerling Schoonhoven Holland