Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: Hi, I use the alternative package ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Update.exe to update my 1.6.2 version. After updating, I found that in Lyx preference - paths, it is still D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\bin;d:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\ImageMagick;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\Metafile2eps I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe OK. If I can remember, I have installed Lyx 1.6.0 standard installer several months ago. But finally, I turn to use alternative installer. So, I'm not sure there are some residue setting in the windows registry or in some system folders. Now, what I can do is: 1, Uninstall Lyx 1.6.3 completely 2, I will try to delete all the residue in my system folders. 3, install Lyx 1.6.2 alternative version 4, install update installer I will give the report then. Thanks for your reply!
Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe Hi, Uwe. I took hours to do the whole fresh installation steps, and as you said, the path can be updated correctly. I apologize that you have tested for me, that takes you time. I appreciate your help very much! But I still have some installation problems. I have take many screen shot images, so I think it is better to create a web page. There are two major problems. 1, configure problem when installation. 2, default tex encoding. You can see the whole steps and the screen shot in: http://sites.google.com/site/studylyx/lyxinstallerror I do suggest the developers of Lyx can consider them. Thanks very much! regards. Asmwarrior
Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: Hi, I use the alternative package ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Update.exe to update my 1.6.2 version. After updating, I found that in Lyx preference - paths, it is still D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\bin;d:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\ImageMagick;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\Metafile2eps I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe OK. If I can remember, I have installed Lyx 1.6.0 standard installer several months ago. But finally, I turn to use alternative installer. So, I'm not sure there are some residue setting in the windows registry or in some system folders. Now, what I can do is: 1, Uninstall Lyx 1.6.3 completely 2, I will try to delete all the residue in my system folders. 3, install Lyx 1.6.2 alternative version 4, install update installer I will give the report then. Thanks for your reply!
Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe Hi, Uwe. I took hours to do the whole fresh installation steps, and as you said, the path can be updated correctly. I apologize that you have tested for me, that takes you time. I appreciate your help very much! But I still have some installation problems. I have take many screen shot images, so I think it is better to create a web page. There are two major problems. 1, configure problem when installation. 2, default tex encoding. You can see the whole steps and the screen shot in: http://sites.google.com/site/studylyx/lyxinstallerror I do suggest the developers of Lyx can consider them. Thanks very much! regards. Asmwarrior
Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: Hi, I use the alternative package ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-Update.exe to update my 1.6.2 version. After updating, I found that in "Lyx preference -> paths", it is still D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\bin;d:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\ImageMagick;D:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.2\etc\Metafile2eps I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe OK. If I can remember, I have installed Lyx 1.6.0 standard installer several months ago. But finally, I turn to use alternative installer. So, I'm not sure there are some "residue setting" in the windows registry or in some system folders. Now, what I can do is: 1, Uninstall Lyx 1.6.3 completely 2, I will try to "delete" all the "residue" in my system folders. 3, install Lyx 1.6.2 alternative version 4, install update installer I will give the report then. Thanks for your reply!
Re: update issue from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 using alternative update package
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tested the update installer now again on 3 different machines and cannot reproduce the problem. I guess what you see can only occur when you once have installed LyX using the standard installer and then used the update installer. So to avoid further problems, can you please try to: - uninstall LyX 1.6 _completely_ - reinstall LyX 1.6.2 using the small or complete version of my alternative installer - use the update installer for LyX 1.6.3 Does it then work? thanks in advance and regards Uwe Hi, Uwe. I took hours to do the whole fresh installation steps, and as you said, the "path" can be updated correctly. I apologize that you have tested for me, that takes you time. I appreciate your help very much! But I still have some installation problems. I have take many screen shot images, so I think it is better to create a web page. There are two major problems. 1, configure problem when installation. 2, default tex encoding. You can see the whole steps and the screen shot in: http://sites.google.com/site/studylyx/lyxinstallerror I do suggest the developers of Lyx can consider them. Thanks very much! regards. Asmwarrior
Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: My question is: Since the outline Type 1 font is better than Type 3, why Lyx till use Type 3 by default? LyX is not to blame, LyX uses LaTeX, so what you get depends on the LaTeX-distribution. As you could see your settings are different than the default. But in your case the result is better than the default. When you want another font than LaTeX's default Computer Modern fonts, see http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts and of course the LyX docs ;-) regards Uwe Thanks Uwe for your patience to help me. Yes, my situation is better than the default. That's maybe my Miktex were use cm package and Type 1 as the default font. Also, I can define these in: Lyx:reference - Output - Latex - tex encoding: OT1 (I can change from default to OT1) I will investigate the wiki page now. regards Asmwarrior
Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: My question is: Since the outline Type 1 font is better than Type 3, why Lyx till use Type 3 by default? LyX is not to blame, LyX uses LaTeX, so what you get depends on the LaTeX-distribution. As you could see your settings are different than the default. But in your case the result is better than the default. When you want another font than LaTeX's default Computer Modern fonts, see http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts and of course the LyX docs ;-) regards Uwe Thanks Uwe for your patience to help me. Yes, my situation is better than the default. That's maybe my Miktex were use cm package and Type 1 as the default font. Also, I can define these in: Lyx:reference - Output - Latex - tex encoding: OT1 (I can change from default to OT1) I will investigate the wiki page now. regards Asmwarrior
Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update
Uwe Stöhr wrote: asm23 schrieb: My question is: Since the outline Type 1 font is better than Type 3, why Lyx till use Type 3 by default? LyX is not to blame, LyX uses LaTeX, so what you get depends on the LaTeX-distribution. As you could see your settings are different than the default. But in your case the result is better than the default. When you want another font than LaTeX's default "Computer Modern" fonts, see http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts and of course the LyX docs ;-) regards Uwe Thanks Uwe for your patience to help me. Yes, my situation is better than the default. That's maybe my Miktex were use "cm" package and Type 1 as the default font. Also, I can define these in: Lyx:reference -> Output -> Latex -> tex encoding: OT1 (I can change from "default" to OT1") I will investigate the wiki page now. regards Asmwarrior
Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm totally annoying of installing the Lyx 1.6. My system is Windows xp, I have Miktex 2.7 be installed already. I have tried LyX-1.6.0-1-Installer.exe or LyX-160-4-15-AltInstaller-Small.exe But none of them can be properly installed. Here is my problem: Every time during the last period of installing, it will connect to the internet and downloading something Lyx seems missing.(I think the python will do this, and download it behind the screen). But it takes *several hours*!!! I can't wait it for too long, So, I just disconnect my networks, then, the installation finished. This was a bad choice. When LyX is installed, its configure script checks the existing LaTeX system. So it asks latex.exe if several LaTeX-packages are available. latex.exe then automatically downloads the missing packages asked by LyX. Depending on your Internet connection, this can indeed take hours (usually it takes 10 minutes with a DSL connection). When you abort this process, you kill the configuration script of LyX and still have an incomplete LaTeX installation and therefore get problems. So you have to with the time until the downloading and installation is done. The Alternative installer therefore displays the current download and installation state in a console Window. To speed up the installation a bit I suggest to uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ and reinstall it using the basic MiKTeX installation you can download from here: http://miktex.org/2.7/setup (Then you have the latest version that fixed some nasty bugs. Otherwise the lyX installer would do the update for you, but this takes longer than reinstalling MiKTeX.) Then reinstall LyX and wait the needed time. This is all you can do. regards Uwe HI, Uwe, Thank you for your reply, and Thank you for your suggestion. I have found the problem, and find a way to work around it. Actually, I first installed the latest version of basic MikTex 2.7 . During setup, I choose the update option in MikTex's Setting dialog Install missing pages, of --- Ask me first. But when I install the Lyx (both the standard version or the alternative installer), the installer will *automatically* change this option to Yes. (it seems very strange) So the installation takes a long time if I have a low speed of network or even pending when I have No internet connection. So, the trick is : (If you have no network or low speed of networks) 1,kill the last step configuration of installation of Lyx. 2,Setting the MikTex update option *back* to Ask me first. 3,start Lyx to let it initialize configuration , and When some message box prompt to ask whether downloading missing packages. I always choose cancel. 4,After step 3, the Lyx can work now. By the way, Even I make a full installation of basic MikTex 2.7, there are still several missing packages required by Lyx. Maybe, They can be downloaded when I have a network or a higher speed connection(using the reconfigure menu). But without these required packages, the Lyx can works well. I'm struggling with this installation problem for about 24 Hours, All what I can do is install and reinstall of different packages again and again :-( So, you can think how depressed I feel. Anyway, I surely solved this problem at last.
Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm totally annoying of installing the Lyx 1.6. My system is Windows xp, I have Miktex 2.7 be installed already. I have tried LyX-1.6.0-1-Installer.exe or LyX-160-4-15-AltInstaller-Small.exe But none of them can be properly installed. Here is my problem: Every time during the last period of installing, it will connect to the internet and downloading something Lyx seems missing.(I think the python will do this, and download it behind the screen). But it takes *several hours*!!! I can't wait it for too long, So, I just disconnect my networks, then, the installation finished. This was a bad choice. When LyX is installed, its configure script checks the existing LaTeX system. So it asks latex.exe if several LaTeX-packages are available. latex.exe then automatically downloads the missing packages asked by LyX. Depending on your Internet connection, this can indeed take hours (usually it takes 10 minutes with a DSL connection). When you abort this process, you kill the configuration script of LyX and still have an incomplete LaTeX installation and therefore get problems. So you have to with the time until the downloading and installation is done. The Alternative installer therefore displays the current download and installation state in a console Window. To speed up the installation a bit I suggest to uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ and reinstall it using the basic MiKTeX installation you can download from here: http://miktex.org/2.7/setup (Then you have the latest version that fixed some nasty bugs. Otherwise the lyX installer would do the update for you, but this takes longer than reinstalling MiKTeX.) Then reinstall LyX and wait the needed time. This is all you can do. regards Uwe HI, Uwe, Thank you for your reply, and Thank you for your suggestion. I have found the problem, and find a way to work around it. Actually, I first installed the latest version of basic MikTex 2.7 . During setup, I choose the update option in MikTex's Setting dialog Install missing pages, of --- Ask me first. But when I install the Lyx (both the standard version or the alternative installer), the installer will *automatically* change this option to Yes. (it seems very strange) So the installation takes a long time if I have a low speed of network or even pending when I have No internet connection. So, the trick is : (If you have no network or low speed of networks) 1,kill the last step configuration of installation of Lyx. 2,Setting the MikTex update option *back* to Ask me first. 3,start Lyx to let it initialize configuration , and When some message box prompt to ask whether downloading missing packages. I always choose cancel. 4,After step 3, the Lyx can work now. By the way, Even I make a full installation of basic MikTex 2.7, there are still several missing packages required by Lyx. Maybe, They can be downloaded when I have a network or a higher speed connection(using the reconfigure menu). But without these required packages, the Lyx can works well. I'm struggling with this installation problem for about 24 Hours, All what I can do is install and reinstall of different packages again and again :-( So, you can think how depressed I feel. Anyway, I surely solved this problem at last.
Re: [correction] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.0
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I'm totally annoying of installing the Lyx 1.6. > My system is Windows xp, I have Miktex 2.7 be installed already. > > I have tried > "LyX-1.6.0-1-Installer.exe" > or > "LyX-160-4-15-AltInstaller-Small.exe" > But none of them can be properly installed. > > Here is my problem: > > Every time during the last period of installing, it will connect to the internet and downloading > something Lyx seems missing.(I think the python will do this, and download it behind the screen). > > But it takes *several hours*!!! I can't wait it for too long, So, I just disconnect my networks, > then, the installation finished. This was a bad choice. When LyX is installed, its configure script checks the existing LaTeX system. So it asks latex.exe if several LaTeX-packages are available. latex.exe then automatically downloads the missing packages asked by LyX. Depending on your Internet connection, this can indeed take hours (usually it takes 10 minutes with a DSL connection). When you abort this process, you kill the configuration script of LyX and still have an incomplete LaTeX installation and therefore get problems. So you have to with the time until the downloading and installation is done. The Alternative installer therefore displays the current download and installation state in a console Window. To speed up the installation a bit I suggest to uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ and reinstall it using the basic MiKTeX installation you can download from here: http://miktex.org/2.7/setup (Then you have the latest version that fixed some nasty bugs. Otherwise the lyX installer would do the update for you, but this takes longer than reinstalling MiKTeX.) Then reinstall LyX and wait the needed time. This is all you can do. regards Uwe HI, Uwe, Thank you for your reply, and Thank you for your suggestion. I have found the problem, and find a way to work around it. Actually, I first installed the latest version of basic MikTex 2.7 . During setup, I choose the update option in MikTex's Setting dialog "Install missing pages", of ---> "Ask me first". But when I install the Lyx (both the standard version or the alternative installer), the installer will *automatically* change this option to "Yes". (it seems very strange) So the installation takes a long time if I have a low speed of network or even pending when I have No internet connection. So, the trick is : (If you have no network or low speed of networks) 1,kill the last step configuration of installation of Lyx. 2,Setting the MikTex update option *back* to "Ask me first". 3,start Lyx to let it initialize configuration , and When some message box prompt to ask whether downloading missing packages. I always choose "cancel". 4,After step 3, the Lyx can work now. By the way, Even I make a full installation of "basic MikTex 2.7", there are still several missing packages required by Lyx. Maybe, They can be downloaded when I have a network or a higher speed connection(using the reconfigure menu). But without these "required packages", the Lyx can works well. I'm struggling with this installation problem for about 24 Hours, All what I can do is "install" and "reinstall" of different packages again and again :-( So, you can think how depressed I feel. Anyway, I surely solved this problem at last.
