On Mar 31, 2006, at 10:22 AM, David McMillen wrote:
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.
What happens when you use LyX to export to LaTeX, and then run LaTeX
manually (from within TeXShop, e.g.)? If the problems are the same
there, you probably want to ask your question on the TeX on MacOS X
mailing list, which can be accessed here: <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-
tex/> (scroll 1/2-way down the page to see the links).
If the problems are unique to LyX, perhaps you can provide a minimal
example file that reveals the problem. Also, does anything get
printed out to Console.app when you typeset from within LyX?
Bennett
