Hi, It's not a LyX problem, since LyX simply runs xdvi, a DVI viewer. So you should check with your TeX distribution, why xdvi cannot load the Computer Modern tfm files (which contains info on size of each glyph of the font).
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > I'm new to LyX -- pls forgive if the question is trivial: > > I'm currently migrating to Linux, and I've selected LyX as word processor. > I'm practicing at LyX under Linux and Windows as well. > > I would like to preview/print some of the LyX documentation, but under Linux > it doesn't work. Here is what I get: > > font TS1/cmr/m/n/10=ccrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not > fo ["found" I guess - the end of the error message is dropped]. > > How can I fix that? Under Windows instead, the doc. appears to preview fine. > > (Linux Ubuntu 7.10 / LyX installed through add/remove applet.) > > TIA - regards, > > Daniel CLEMENT > > >
