Re: External fig material and pdflatex

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Georg Baum wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

I got this error when I try to export with pdflatex:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:/devel/lyx/trunk/lib/scripts/fig2pdftex.py", line 81, in
   <module>
     tmp = open(epsfile + '.??', 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'0C__perso_these_fig_Avion.pstex.??'
Error: Cannot convert file
----------------------------------------
An error occurred whilst running python -tt
"C:/devel/lyx/trunk/lib/scripts/fig2pdf

I guess that your OS does not like the question marks in the file name.
Instead of using this strange name it would be better to use mkstemp() from
lyxpreview_tools.py to create a temporary file that deletes itself after
usage.

That did it!

Thanks,
Abdel.