On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:58:41AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2003 01:41, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > > LyX: Cannot view file > > > > > > No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). > > > > Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option .. > > you can do this by going to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats > > (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the > > xforms frontend but should be something similar) and then select the > > PDF (pdflatex) option and define a viewer for it (xpdf or acroread > > or any other viewer that you use). And you may need to do the same > > for the other PDF options and for PS... > No, you haven't installed xpdf. Install it and everything will work > fine. BTW: can we consider this a bug in the lyx rpm? I mean should > xpdf or any other viewer be a build require in the spec file? or > should Mandrake install xpdf by default?
This is not a bug in the spec. LyX works without pdf just fine. _Recommending_ a .pdf viewer is another thing, though... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
