Re: Difficulty viewing pdf output

2012-03-26 Thread Art Edwards 
On 03/25/2012 05:13 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Art Edwards  icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> writes:
>
>> Could not display "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T25823/lyx_tmpbuf2/MRS_2012.pdf"
>>
>> The location is not a folder.
>>
>> The pdf file exists and is viewable, just not using the view button in lyx.
>>
> Just to be clear, you're saying that if you do View > PDF or View > PDF
> (pdflatex) in LyX, you find the aforenamed PDF file in the LyX buffer 
> directory,
> and you can open it manually in your preferred viewer, but LyX reports the
> quoted error message?  That being the case, if you look at Tools > 
> Preferences >
> File Handling > File Formats and select the appropriate (say, PDF (pdflatex)),
> is the Viewer field set correctly?
>
> Paul
>
>
Yes to everything above the last question. That was the problem. The
Viewer field was set to xdg-open. I changed it to acroread and it works!

Many thanks.

Art Edwards

Re: Difficulty viewing pdf output

2012-03-25 Thread Paul A . Rubin 
Art Edwards  icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> writes:

> 
> Could not display "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T25823/lyx_tmpbuf2/MRS_2012.pdf"
> 
> The location is not a folder.
> 
> The pdf file exists and is viewable, just not using the view button in lyx.
> 

Just to be clear, you're saying that if you do View > PDF or View > PDF
(pdflatex) in LyX, you find the aforenamed PDF file in the LyX buffer directory,
and you can open it manually in your preferred viewer, but LyX reports the
quoted error message?  That being the case, if you look at Tools > Preferences >
File Handling > File Formats and select the appropriate (say, PDF (pdflatex)),
is the Viewer field set correctly?

Paul

Difficulty viewing pdf output

2012-03-25 Thread Art Edwards 
I receive the following error message:

Could not display "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T25823/lyx_tmpbuf2/MRS_2012.pdf"

The location is not a folder.

The pdf file exists and is viewable, just not using the view button in lyx.

I tried using the -dgb debug switch from the command line, but this
introduced what appeared to be spurious errors.. no generation of pdf.

Any help would be appreciated.

Art Edwards