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From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: File format extension
Is the extension field in Edit->Preferences->File formats documented
anywhere? I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF
(pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a
non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader
regardless). Turns out this doesn't work, because pdflatex gives the
file a .pdf extension regardless.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or just how things work, because I can't
find any documentation of whether the field is intended to let me
specify the extension I want or just communicate the extension the file
is going to have (outside my control).
Paul
I have been able to use another viewer to read postscript files besides
gswin (although it uses ghostscript.exe) so I think you can use another
viewer app instead of Reader, Acrobat or xpdf (I put it in C:\lyx\lyx\bin)
to read pdf. But to read a different file format I think you need a new
viewer field assigned to that file format which would mean adapting the
LyX source code. I received an email once from Helge(sp?) which I
can't find now that leads me to believe this. Angus will probably give
a definitive answer.
Regards,
Stephen
