Hi Alex, I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf
If you have powerdot, check the users guide, section 8.2 for info on creating/viewing output. Phil --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Robert, > > > RO> If I may make a suggestion here. > Yes, of course. > > RO> Try powerdot rather than prosper. I think you > will > RO> find it an improvement and may not have as many > RO> problems. > I faced to the same problem trying powerdot. :( > > I installed everything (LyX 1.3.6) on an XP machine > and I played a little > bit. I found that the View -> PDF does not work! It > produces the errors as > described below. In the other hand, if I export it > to PDF, it works! > Wow! What is the problem? Somebody shall check it, > sometime... > > It is same for prosper and powerdot. > > So, I returned back to my 1.3.3 (at home) and I > tryed to export as PDF. > Unfortunately, I have Win98 and I was out of > environment space during > running ps2pdf! It was hard to figured it out. So, I > have to export it > to PS first, then copy to "C:\lyx\gs\gs8.51\lib\" > and then do > "command /e:1024" to increse enviroment space > afterward comes the ps2pdf in > that shell. Thus, I have the presentation in pdf. > > I tryed to increase environment space at boot, > without any success! :( > > >> step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide > >> step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide > >> step: Counter does not exist: lyxnewslide > I don't know why this appears, but it does not > bother me anymore. > > > View -> PDF will not work for some reason, maybe > somebody got it working? > > >> I use lyx 1.3.3 (I tryed it with 1.3.5, it was > the > >> same) on Win98se. > >> I have MikTeX 2.4.1398 installed. > + ghostscript 8.51 > > -- > Best regards, > Alex mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> Dear List, > >> > >> I have installed prosper and I cannot compile the > >> example files on the > >> wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Prosper)! > >> > >> When I open "layout_Dekel-sample.lyx" on console > >> window I can see a > >> message: > > > >> I try to view it with 'View -> DVI', but as it is > >> written doesn't show anyithing > >> (ops it shows something on the far right, if I > zoom > >> it out, I could see something...). > > >> When I try to "View -> PDF(pdflatex)", I does > show > >> me that there are 20 > >> errors during running latex. > >> The first 5 complain about "Undefined control > >> sequence" for "\maketitle". > >> At each caption there are other 5 like "Undefined > >> control sequence" for > >> "\lyxnewslide{Caption n:o 2}". > >> Finally, at the end the same for > "\end{document}". > > > > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
