My recent experience is that ghostview works consistently with pdf files I
make (using ps2pdf) and with those I download whereas xpdf works only
sporadically. (xpdf will sometimes display screens full of dots and dashes
- as though it cannot find or use fonts properly.) I have had no
difficulty with acroread on x86 systems with any pdf file. ghostview (gs)
consistently works for me on both x86 and alpha platforms.
(I only use acroread is to print pdfs and that only because I have an
unresolved configuration problem with ghostview that prevents printing
individual pages.)
On 9 Nov 2000, Andre Berger wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have just subscribed to this group! I'd like to find out how I
>produce .pdf files from within lyx. The documentation is... I did
>things with Export-Custom ;), but I had to use ps2pdf, and the result
>was of a very bad quality in acroread; xpdf couldn't even show
>it. What I'd really like to have is an option to run pdfelatex from
>within LyX, and display the result in xpdf automagically. An "option"
>as xdvi is significantly faster, and can be updated.
>
>My system: Debian 2.2 potato, LyX 1.15fix2, gs 5.10-9.1 (.deb package
>#), recent tetex, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{palatino}.
>
>
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