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'
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.
I'll second what others have suggested about trying the conversion
manually. I would also suggest trying it without the
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 switch. Seems to me I had some problems on
Windows that were solved by getting rid of that, and AFAIK it's only
necessary if you need to support massively outdated versions of Acrobat
Reader (or other viewers?).
-- Paul
