Matthias Pauli wrote: > I always get the message "No pdf viewer is installed. > Please install a pdf viewer such as adobe reader." I have a pdf viewer > installed (Adove and Sumatra) I checked tools > preferences > files > > converter (I am using the german version so these are my translation) and > checked for a relation but there are quite a lot of possibilities and I am > not sure what exactly I should look for. lyx --> xxx or latex --> xxx? > There is no option lyx --> pdf only converters to older versions of lyx. > There are converters like LaTeX (pdflatex) --> PDF (pdflatex). If I > understood the tutorial properly it needs to be lyx to pdf right? Anybody > have an idea how to fix this or manualy install such a converter? I am > using Windows 8
It needs to be LaTeX > PDF, but there are several ways and LaTeX/PDF formats, depending on which processor you use. Given you use pdflatex, make sure there's a viewer defined for the file format "PDF (pdflatex)" in Tools > Preferences > Files > File Formats. Normally, LyX should find and set a viewer automatically. Maybe Edit > Reconfigure (and a restart) suffices? Jürgen
