RE: Problems with LyX Installation
Hello André, I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always an error message. Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it works? The text of that error message might help ... Regards Matthias
RE: Problems with LyX Installation
Hello André, I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always an error message. Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it works? The text of that error message might help ... Regards Matthias
RE: Problems with LyX Installation
Hello André, > I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. > Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). > > Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always > an error message. > > Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it > works? The text of that error message might help ... Regards Matthias
Problems with LyX Installation
Hello friends! I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always an error message. I think, there are problems with general properties - but I don't know what. Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it works? Thanks and regards, André
Problems with LyX Installation
Hello friends! I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always an error message. I think, there are problems with general properties - but I don't know what. Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it works? Thanks and regards, André
Problems with LyX Installation
Hello friends! I installed LyX (LyX-2.0.1-1) new - at my Windows 7 64 bit system. Before this, I installed MiKTEX (basic-miktex-2.9.4250-x64). Now, I can't create an output file (like pdf or other). I get always an error message. I think, there are problems with general properties - but I don't know what. Now anyone what the problem is, respectively what I can do that it works? Thanks and regards, André
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) View-PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf). The export menu item requires just (a). Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is the culprit. Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing PDFs (acrord32?). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing works perfectly now thx Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) View-PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf). The export menu item requires just (a). Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is the culprit. Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing PDFs (acrord32?). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing works perfectly now thx Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the "pdf" is gone, there is only the "dvipdfm" and the "pdflatex". Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) View->PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf). The export menu item requires just (a). Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is the culprit. Check in Edit->Preferences...->File formats->PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing PDFs (acrord32?). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
> Check in Edit->Preferences...->File formats->PDF (ps2pdf) that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing works perfectly now thx Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
I got it, at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years! (The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the "pdf" is gone, there is only the "dvipdfm" and the "pdflatex". Is there any possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which uses the ps2pdf...) Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... That makes sense. After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run regedit and search for any lingering registry entries. Rather mysterious. /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... That makes sense. After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run regedit and search for any lingering registry entries. Rather mysterious. /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... That makes sense. After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run regedit and search for any lingering registry entries. Rather mysterious. /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I write nothing in the preamble Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I write nothing in the preamble Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
> Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, > General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button. I've encountered > problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after > I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for "times" but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with "problems with mathptmx and times" maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for "times" but didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with "problems with mathptmx and times" maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem... Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
> Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when using Times with mathptmx? The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I write nothing in the preamble > Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date > distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something screwed on my computer. Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some left-over configfiles... Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs. Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard
with no second page
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage
with no second page
\end{document}
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote:
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
[...]
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
[...]
\end{document}
I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View-PDF (ps2pdf) displayed
both pages correctly. I noticed that the .tex file you included was
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x. I checked the LaTeX export
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well. I
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you
load it into 1.4.3 and View-PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?
When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format
(\lyxformat 245). My first suspicion would be that something in the old
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce
it with your test document.
What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3,
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run
latex test.tex
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf
and open test.pdf? Is the page still blank?
/Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and many nostringval it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and many nostringval it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs. Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard
with no second page
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage
with no second page
\end{document}
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote:
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
[...]
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
[...]
\end{document}
I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View-PDF (ps2pdf) displayed
both pages correctly. I noticed that the .tex file you included was
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x. I checked the LaTeX export
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well. I
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you
load it into 1.4.3 and View-PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?
When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format
(\lyxformat 245). My first suspicion would be that something in the old
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce
it with your test document.
What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3,
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run
latex test.tex
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf
and open test.pdf? Is the page still blank?
/Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and many nostringval it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and many nostringval it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs. Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf? /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard
with no second page
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage
with no second page
\end{document}
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote:
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
[...]
\the_end
and this the tex export:
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
[...]
\end{document}
I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View->PDF (ps2pdf) displayed
both pages correctly. I noticed that the .tex file you included was
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x. I checked the LaTeX export
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well. I
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you
load it into 1.4.3 and View->PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?
When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format
(\lyxformat 245). My first suspicion would be that something in the old
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce
it with your test document.
What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3,
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run
latex test.tex
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf
and open test.pdf? Is the page still blank?
/Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: "invalidfont in findfont" and many "nostringval" it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to "times": then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: ok, we found it latex test.tex worked fine dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: "invalidfont in findfont" and many "nostringval" it is the \mathptmx which causes the error I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to "times": then I get only a blank page. What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to search? Regards Robert Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button. I've encountered problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick. /Paul
Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf). The converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf). The converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs.
Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf). The converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf). The converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs.
Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
Robert Neumann wrote: Hello, I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine. Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my harddrive. If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf... Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall an reinstall again. Thanks Robert Check Tools->Preferences->Converters->Postscript->PDF (ps2pdf). The converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). /Paul
Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page
> Check Tools->Preferences->Converters->Postscript->PDF (ps2pdf). The > converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in > your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the > MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe). The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old files make difficulties. (I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left overs.
Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? Thank you in advance. Regards. Sebastien
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? I don't have such a problem on Debian unstable. Perhaps you don't have the necessary fonts ? What is the output of 'lyx -dbg font' ?
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? Thank you in advance. Regards. Sebastien
Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? Thank you in advance. Regards. Sebastien
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? I don't have such a problem on Debian unstable. Perhaps you don't have the necessary fonts ? What is the output of 'lyx -dbg font' ?
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? Thank you in advance. Regards. Sebastien
Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
Hello, I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my powerbook lombard and i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few seconds later, it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it seems that everything is ok. Dos anyone have an idea ? Thank you in advance. Regards. Sebastien
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:23:16AM +0200, sebastien hugues wrote: > I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my > powerbook lombard and > i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few > seconds later, > it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... > I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it > seems > that everything is ok. > Dos anyone have an idea ? I don't have such a problem on Debian unstable. Perhaps you don't have the necessary fonts ? What is the output of 'lyx -dbg font' ?
Re: Problems with lyx installation on Debian woody
I'm making a debian package for the lyx-1.2.1, when it's done, you can build the package on your powerbook if you want (I use macosx on my mac, and my debian box is x86). sebastien hugues a écrit: > Hello, > > I've just installed the latest debian, also named as woody, on my > powerbook lombard and > i have some troubles with lyx installation. I launch lyx and a few > seconds later, > it crashes with this error : SIGSEGV signal caught ... > I have checked the version of libc, latex and lyx (1.1.6fix4-2) and it > seems > that everything is ok. > Dos anyone have an idea ? > Thank you in advance. > > Regards. > Sebastien
