Roger McMurtrie wrote: > When using View>PDF which has been working without problems in the past > with a large document I have been developing for over a year, I now get > the following Lyx error dialog: > > Cannot convert file > Error while executing > ps2pdf �-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 'thesis5.ps'
ps2pdf is a utility shipped with Ghostscript that does what it says :) One thing you could try is to go to the temp directory that LyX is using as a workspace to create these files. Something like /tmp/lyx_tmpdirXXXX/lyx_tmpbuf0. You should find the files generated in the generation of all the intermediate formats up to the one that failed. <.tex file> --latex--> <.dvi file> --dvips--> <.ps file> --ps2pdf--> <.pdf file> Try and run ps2pdf by hand on the .ps file. Does it report anything illuminating? Another idea would be to use View>PDF (pdflatex) which uses the pdflatex compiler to generate a .pdf file directly from your .tex file. Angus > How do I go about finding the source of this problem. Lyx does not show > any errors in the document. > > Problem may have had something to do with the Linux version of Acroread7 > which I installed recently. Following this installation View>PDF command > failed to work with varying indications of errors. Acroread7 seemed to > work OK with PDF files, it seemed that the conversion from eps or ps > process was failing. I reinstalled Acroread5.0.10 but errors still > ocurred, with error messages only telling me that conversion failed, > sometimes saying it couldn't process eps files. After about a day of > trying various things, View>PDF finally worked fine under Acroread5.0.10. > > Now the problem has reappeared. -- Angus
