Stephen P. Harris wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul A. Rubin"
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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
Stephen,
Thanks. I actually didn't have any insurmountable :-) problems getting
the new viewer to work. I created a new format (similar to PDF
(pdflatex) but with a different name), created a conversion path to get
from LyX to it (using pdflatex), inserted the viewer command I wanted
and added the directory containing the viewer to the PATH prefix (key
step). During debugging of this, I had a file opened by Acrobat Reader
(presumably because the viewer I wanted wasn't set up properly and LyX
reverted to the system file association for ".pdf"), so I thought I
could avoid that in the future by changing the extension. Apparently,
that thought was incorrect.
BTW, adding a new format, new converter, new viewer does not require
tinkering with LyX source.
Paul
