Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this (always a bad
sign when a message starts this way, I know!), but . . .
I'm having recurring problems getting my documents to render
correctly on the OS X version of LyX. What seems to happen is that
each time I preview the PDF file, it starts out initially as
gibberish (many black bars, boxes, etc. in the equations), then each
successive preview "fixes" more and more of the bits, or at least
causes the gibberish to move around the page, until eventually I get
a clean copy that looks the way I expected -- see the attached series
of screen captures. [Correction: Screen captures available on
request, but the mailing list can't accept files of that size.] So
it works eventually, but it takes some time-- does anyone have any
theories as to why?
It looks like something to do with the fonts needing to be
regenerated when they're going to be used, or something. If I close
LyX then reopen it immediately, it seems to render them correctly
thefirst time. But I've also seen weird problems where I see the
fonts perfectly well on the screen, but they turn back into gibberish
when I try to print them on my (hp LaserJet, PostScript) printer. If
there were some way to fix this, I'd love to hear about it!
I followed the TeX installation instructions at:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/installing.html
using i-Installer.
Thanks,
Dave
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University of Toronto at Mississauga
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