On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:07:24PM +0200, Giorgio Corani wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I would to get a good pdf output from my lyx document.
> I've converted postscript with ps2pdf, but it didn't look good (at
> least within the acrobat reader), eventhoug it was ok when printed.
As other people have suggested, use pslatex or times for the fonts
in your Layout->Document instead of the default.
> Is it possible to get directly the pdf version, without to use ps2pdf?
> As far as i know now, it should possible with the 1.1.6 release.
> However, when I installed it, I wasn't able to do it.
This is a puzzle. I am using 1.1.6fix1 with no problems actually
generating the PDF (the content of the PDF is another matter, see other
post).
Look at the Edit->Preferences dialogue.
Click on the Converters tag. That gives you access to the converters.
There are two parts to it -- the formats, and the conversions.
Is "PDF" listed in the formats?
Is Postscript->PDF listed in the converters? Since you have ps2pdf on
your system, that should be the converter it is using.
Then there is LaTeX->PDF conversion, which should be using pdflatex
which should also be on your system.
My LyX was already set up with these, I didn't have to change anything.
(But I did add extra converters of my own.)
A caveate with pdflatex -- if you are using included graphics, you need
to convert them to PDF with epstopdf -- or else grab the lyx2pdf (or
tex2pdf) script (I think you can find it via http://www.ctan.org or on
http://www.sourceforge.net) which will do all that for you.
Kathryn Andersen
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