On 11 Dec 2017, at 20:29, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com<mailto:parubi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 12/11/2017 02:13 PM, Chandler1,D (pgr) wrote: Hello, I installed LyX on my MacBook Pro (10.12.5) today. I want to work through the tutorial, and decided it would be useful to have a pdf version. However, when I click the View button to create a pdf I get the following error message: "No information for converting svgz format files to pdf6. Define a converter in the preferences.” If I tell LyX to go ahead and create a PDF anyway, then various bits come out a mess (see attached, p8-9 for example). The issue seems to be with “toolbar buttons”. I have searched for forums discussing this issue but cannot find anything that resolves my problem. One forum suggested installing “homebrew" and then typing in the command “brew install librsvg” but this didn’t help. I would be very grateful for any advice. I am wary of continuing with LyX if this means I won’t be able to format any files. Thanks, Daniel Daniel: LyX refers to PDF graphics as "pdf6" file format. The problem is that the button images are compressed SVG files, and LyX does not know how to convert them to graphics on your system. As Cris mentioned, you probably need to install a graphics converter program. Once you do so, reconfigure LyX (Tools >Reconfigure) and restart it, and you should be good to go. Just to confirm that this is the problem, open LyX and go to Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > Converters. In the list of converter definitions, highlight "SVG (compressed) -> PDF (graphics)" and see if there is anything in the "Converter:" field. My guess is that it's blank. After installing a suitable converter program and reconfiguring LyX, this should be filled in by the configuration script. I'm on Linux rather than MacOS, but for it's worth I'm using rsvg for this, and my converter field reads "rsvg-convert -f pdf -o $$o $$i". According to various stuff I found in a quick Google search, you can install librsvg on a Mac if you have Homebrew installed. Paul Hi Paul, Cris, Scott, Thanks for your helpful suggestions, LyX is now up and running. Paul - that was definitely the problem, the SVG to PDF converter was empty. It seems the step I was missing was reconfiguring LyX: I had managed to install homebrew and rsvg but didn’t know how to get LyX to join the dots. Scott, thanks for offering the 2.3.0 version - I think I’ll stick with what I have for now. If you are involved in developing the next iteration, I also found that the example files referenced in the tutorial were missing from my installation package (the example folder was empty) and I had to download them separately from the web. Thanks again, Daniel
