Carlos Knauer wrote:
Hi.
How do I creat a PDF file from LyX ?
First, look at the File | Export menu. You should see some or all of
the options PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), or PDF (pdflatex). If you do, you can
use any of them to export the document as a PDF file. (There are
relative merits to each, but that's for someone more knowledgeable to
explain.) If you don't see those options, you'll need to edit your
preferences.
First go to Edit | Preferences | File formats and look for three
entries: PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), PDF (pdflatex). If any are missing, click
New, add the missing one (using PDF, PDF (pdflatex) or PDF (dvipdfm)
for the GUI name; pdf, pdf2 or pdf3 respectively for the Format; pdf for
the Extension in all three cases; and the name of your favorite viewer,
for example acrord32 for Acrobat Reader, for the Viewer). Click Modify
after each one to save the changes.
Now you need to go into Edit | Preferences | Converters and add some
entries. (I think these entries should be there by default, in which
case not having them may be indicative of the setup script not finding
some key ingredient, such as the pdflatex.exe program, on your system.)
For "plain" conversion to PDF (via dvips), you need two entries:
From=DVI, To=Postscript, Converter=dvips -o $$o $$i, Extra flag left
empty
From=Postscript, To=PDF, Converter=ps2pdf13 $$i, Extra flag left empty
Using dvipdfm:
From=DVI, To=PDF (dvipdfm), Converter=dvipdfm $$i, Extra flag left empty
Using pdflatex:
From=LaTeX, To=PDF (pdflatex), Converter=pdflatex $$i, Extra flag=latex
In each case, if the entry is missing, click the New button, enter
what's shown above, then click Modify. When you're all done, click Save
to save your new settings.
At this point, the View menu should have options for each of the PDF
formats you set up, as should the File | Export menu. So you can view
the file (and print or save from the viewer), or export directly to a file.
Again, this depends on your having pdflatex.exe or dvipdfm.exe installed
where LyX can find them. The "plain version" (using dvips and ps2pdf13)
requires that you have GhostScript installed.
-- Paul
