Jan Wiener wrote:

> hello,
> 
> i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and
> 2 horrible things happened.
> 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export
> and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore.

This is because the preferences file of 1.4.x has a slightly different
format. You can start 1.3 with the -userdir switch (see the man page), and
pdflatex will come back.

> 2. my new version 1.4.3 did not import old lyx-files (the error message
> was something like: your file was generated by an earlier version,
> lyx2lyx failed to import ...)

run lyx from a terminal window and show us the error message printed by
lyx2lyx. Otherwise we cannot help.


Georg

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