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Van: Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: J. Kamerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: LyX-Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Verzonden: dinsdag 29 augustus 2000 11:13
Onderwerp: Re: problems of a new user (win32)
> > 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.
>
> This does work on my system! You need to set the following in your lyxrc
> file:
> \ps_command "/apps/gs4.03/bin/gs"
> In my example lyxrc file there is (as a comment) a wrong path set to
> ghostview (with a leading '//c').
>
My lyxrc-file already contained this setting. The directory structure is
also correct. So there is still a problem.
> > 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.
>
> Again a path problem with that Win32-Program! If you're interested, i.e.
if
> you do need this feature asap (???) I can write a shell script to correct
> that problem!
>
I am very interested, but I don't need this feature as soon as possible. If
you have a solution please let me know.
> > 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.
>
> This seems to be an internal LyX error! When you open the document
manually,
> i.e. File->Open then change directory into
> file://c/Cygwin/usr/local/lyx/share/doc (prefix file: inserted by Outlook
> Express!) and open the file all went well!
>
> I will check, how Lyx creates the filename if selected by Help->UserGuide.
> This should be in a way, that does not take the configuration in account!
As
> far as I can see now LyX will just prefix the unix-filename
> /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx/doc/UserGuide.lyx with an '//c' although this is
> not okay!
>
> Try to open the files manually so far! I will check and mail you if I can
> fix that problem!
>
I tried to open manually. In YAP and GSView the figures do appear.
Unfortunately not in LyX.
> Regards
> Claus
>
>
Thank you very much for your answers When other problems are solved, please
let me know.
Greetings
Sjaak
