Yap does not recognize/need an option to set the paper size! Therefore you
have to set
\view_dvi_paper_option ""
in your .lyxrc file (or preferences) in your $HOME/.lyx directory!
Claus
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Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 11:38 PM
Subject: lyx1.1.6fix1(W32) - "Bad DVI file"
> I use lyx 1.1.6fix1 for *WINDOWS*, with cygwin1.1.8.
>
> As suggested, I upgraded both cygwin and lyx. All seems to work
> right, except for DVI preview: YAP (dvi viewer) shows this message
> :"c:/cygwin/tmp/lyx_tmpdir[...]/lyx_tmpbuf[...]/a4.dvi Cannot open
> DVI document".
>
> Trying to export DVI from inside lyx and then open it with the same
> YAP it produces a "bad DVI file" error message.
>
> Anyway the Postscript preview from lyx *works*!!
>
> Of course the previous version of Lyx (1.1.5fix2) didn't have any
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
> Giuseppe
>
