Keith, Keith Roberts <keith <at> karsites.net> writes:
> > I suggest you try switching your DVI viewer choice in LyX > > to yap (temporarily). If you can view DVI output, > > something may be wrong with the configuration of Evince > > (or maybe how LyX is passing arguments to it). If yap > > doesn't work either, something may be configured > > incorrectly in LyX. > > Hi Paul. Thanks for mentioning that. > > I did a search for the yap.exe viewer using Everything > Search program from http://www.voidtools.com/download.php > > Ran the yap.exe from a CL prompt, and was told it is not set > as the default DVI viewer - so I set it as that. And got it > to run from the command line, so I know LyX can find the exe > file. MiKTeX comes with yap. On my Windows 7 box (64 bit) it's C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\yap.exe. I don't know if it makes any difference, but I would try with MiKTeX's version rather than a downloaded version (which might require some custom configuration). > > In LyX under Tools->Preferences->File formats I set yap as > the viewer for DraftDVI and DVI. > > Closed that down, and in the LyX GUI I selected View->DVI, > and Yap opens with the following error message: > [...] > MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Dvi\Ghostscript.cpp [...] > > Is there a problem with Yap not being able to generate the > needed fonts? > I'm not sure whether it's a font problem or what. Did you try this on a pretty vanilla document ("Hello World!")? Paul
