Re: pdf output
Steffen Evers wrote:
>
> Ralph Boland wrote:
> > WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW
> > DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT?
> >
> > The archives have several useful comments on how
> > to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files
> > which I will now try. Any final advice welcome.
> >
> > I am using lyx-1.1.5fix1
>
> When you figured out how to do it could you post it on the list?
> Actually, I have also wanted to generate some good pdfs and nothing really
> satsified me. So, I finally used postscript instead, but pdfs would be better
> ...
in latex preamble
\usepackage{pslatex}
\usepackage[ps2pdf,pdftitle={Your Document
Title},urlcolor=blue,linktocpage,letterpaper,colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
And then use Export->Postscript and from the shell program ps2pdf
or print-menu and output to a ps-file and than ps2pdf .
this works good for me.
Herbert
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pdf output
I need to generate some pdf files from the lyx documents I created using foilTex. (lots of eps files) I noticed several pdf-ish things settable in the lyxrc file so I thought I could get lyx to generate pdf output, both to the screen and to files. These settings include: \pdf_mode true \custom_export_format pdf \pdflatex_command "pdflatex" \view_pdf_command "acroread" However, setting these values in my lyxrc file didn't seem to have any affect. (I quit and reentered lyx.) I perused the lyx documentation and then checked the lyx commands listed in the bindings files looking for commands related to this but found little. So I perused the archives and found more than enough information to confuse me. Yet none of the posting I checked in the archives referenced these settings. They do imply that I cannot convert lyx documents to pdf files directly from lyx except perhaps through a custom export command. WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT? The archives have several useful comments on how to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files which I will now try. Any final advice welcome. I am using lyx-1.1.5fix1 Thanks Ralph Boland
pdf output
I need to generate some pdf files from the lyx documents I created using foilTex. (lots of eps files) I noticed several pdf-ish things settable in the lyxrc file so I thought I could get lyx to generate pdf output, both to the screen and to files. These settings include: \pdf_mode true \custom_export_format pdf \pdflatex_command "pdflatex" \view_pdf_command "acroread" However, setting these values in my lyxrc file didn't seem to have any affect. (I quit and reentered lyx.) I perused the lyx documentation and then checked the lyx commands listed in the bindings files looking for commands related to this but found little. So I perused the archives and found more than enough information to confuse me. Yet none of the posting I checked in the archives referenced these settings. They do imply that I cannot convert lyx documents to pdf files directly from lyx except perhaps through a custom export command. WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT? The archives have several useful comments on how to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files which I will now try. Any final advice welcome. I am using lyx-1.1.5fix1 Thanks Ralph Boland
pdf output
I need to generate some pdf files from the lyx documents I created using foilTex. (lots of eps files) I noticed several pdf-ish things settable in the lyxrc file so I thought I could get lyx to generate pdf output, both to the screen and to files. These settings include: \pdf_mode true \custom_export_format pdf \pdflatex_command "pdflatex" \view_pdf_command "acroread" However, setting these values in my lyxrc file didn't seem to have any affect. (I quit and reentered lyx.) I perused the lyx documentation and then checked the lyx commands listed in the bindings files looking for commands related to this but found little. So I perused the archives and found more than enough information to confuse me. Yet none of the posting I checked in the archives referenced these settings. They do imply that I cannot convert lyx documents to pdf files directly from lyx except perhaps through a custom export command. WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT? The archives have several useful comments on how to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files which I will now try. Any final advice welcome. I am using lyx-1.1.5fix1 Thanks Ralph Boland
PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Florian Cramer wrote: Am Tue, 23.Nov.1999 um 13:53:34 +0100 schrieb Lars Gullik Bj=F8nnes: Be aware though that pdflatex currently doesn't handle eps graphics so th= at all included graphics have to be converted to pdf first... would be great= if LyX could handle this as a background job... =20 So why not use ps2pdf (okay, you have to create a ps-file first...). This is what I do now (export as ps, and then create a pdf-file by ps2pdf). It works very well (especially when using gs 5.50), but it would be great if you can just click on Export...as PDF and that's it (I know, sometimes I'm a lazy guy :-). I have been investigating producing both .ps and .pdf output from the same latex source (in order to provide both versions of lecture notes etc. on my web page). The important issues seem to be: * use \includegraphics from the "graphics" or "graphicx" latex2e package to include graphics. * Important: do not give the extension (.eps) of the graphics file in the \includegraphics command. THIS NEEDS A CHANGE IN LYX: the .eps extension should not be stored in the .lyx file. When you browse for a graphics file it should remove the .eps extension from the filename before putting it in the .lyx file but add it transparently when calling ghostscript to render the image for the screen. * to produce .dvi or .ps output run latex + dvips as usual * to produce .pdf output run "epstopdf" on each graphics file and the run pdflatex. In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. Running pdflatex includes the standard tex fonts as Type1 postscript fonts (outline fonts) resulting in much better appearance on the screen with Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have the whole process automated with Makefiles and so it should not be difficult to automate it within lyx as well. All the best, Horst Kausch
Re: PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Horst G Kausch wrote: In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. You could use "gv" and ghostscript instead of acroread to display pdf documents: it can antialias the bitmapped fonts too. (ie. new versions of ghostscript can read pdf too, at least Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50) Or you could change Layout-Document-Fonts to "times" which (I guess) uses Type1 fonts and, when exported to .ps and .pdf with ps2pdf, produces good looking antialiased fonts even in acroread. This all works with standard LaTeX/TeX (not pdftex required). -- | Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PGP public key | Homepage: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ available] | Try also finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Studying information engineering at the University of Oulu +---
PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Florian Cramer wrote: Am Tue, 23.Nov.1999 um 13:53:34 +0100 schrieb Lars Gullik Bj=F8nnes: Be aware though that pdflatex currently doesn't handle eps graphics so th= at all included graphics have to be converted to pdf first... would be great= if LyX could handle this as a background job... =20 So why not use ps2pdf (okay, you have to create a ps-file first...). This is what I do now (export as ps, and then create a pdf-file by ps2pdf). It works very well (especially when using gs 5.50), but it would be great if you can just click on Export...as PDF and that's it (I know, sometimes I'm a lazy guy :-). I have been investigating producing both .ps and .pdf output from the same latex source (in order to provide both versions of lecture notes etc. on my web page). The important issues seem to be: * use \includegraphics from the "graphics" or "graphicx" latex2e package to include graphics. * Important: do not give the extension (.eps) of the graphics file in the \includegraphics command. THIS NEEDS A CHANGE IN LYX: the .eps extension should not be stored in the .lyx file. When you browse for a graphics file it should remove the .eps extension from the filename before putting it in the .lyx file but add it transparently when calling ghostscript to render the image for the screen. * to produce .dvi or .ps output run latex + dvips as usual * to produce .pdf output run "epstopdf" on each graphics file and the run pdflatex. In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. Running pdflatex includes the standard tex fonts as Type1 postscript fonts (outline fonts) resulting in much better appearance on the screen with Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have the whole process automated with Makefiles and so it should not be difficult to automate it within lyx as well. All the best, Horst Kausch
Re: PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Horst G Kausch wrote: In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. You could use "gv" and ghostscript instead of acroread to display pdf documents: it can antialias the bitmapped fonts too. (ie. new versions of ghostscript can read pdf too, at least Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50) Or you could change Layout-Document-Fonts to "times" which (I guess) uses Type1 fonts and, when exported to .ps and .pdf with ps2pdf, produces good looking antialiased fonts even in acroread. This all works with standard LaTeX/TeX (not pdftex required). -- | Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PGP public key | Homepage: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ available] | Try also finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Studying information engineering at the University of Oulu +---
PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Florian Cramer wrote: > > Am Tue, 23.Nov.1999 um 13:53:34 +0100 schrieb Lars Gullik Bj=F8nnes: > > Be aware though that pdflatex currently doesn't handle eps graphics so th= > at > > all included graphics have to be converted to pdf first... would be great= > if > > LyX could handle this as a background job... > >=20 > > So why not use ps2pdf (okay, you have to create a ps-file first...). This > is what I do now (export as ps, and then create a pdf-file by ps2pdf). It > works very well (especially when using gs 5.50), but it would be great if > you can just click on Export...as PDF and that's it (I know, sometimes > I'm a lazy guy :-). > I have been investigating producing both .ps and .pdf output from the same latex source (in order to provide both versions of lecture notes etc. on my web page). The important issues seem to be: * use \includegraphics from the "graphics" or "graphicx" latex2e package to include graphics. * Important: do not give the extension (.eps) of the graphics file in the \includegraphics command. THIS NEEDS A CHANGE IN LYX: the .eps extension should not be stored in the .lyx file. When you browse for a graphics file it should remove the .eps extension from the filename before putting it in the .lyx file but add it transparently when calling ghostscript to render the image for the screen. * to produce .dvi or .ps output run latex + dvips as usual * to produce .pdf output run "epstopdf" on each graphics file and the run pdflatex. In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. Running pdflatex includes the standard tex fonts as Type1 postscript fonts (outline fonts) resulting in much better appearance on the screen with Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have the whole process automated with Makefiles and so it should not be difficult to automate it within lyx as well. All the best, Horst Kausch
Re: PDF output (was Re: How to use custom export)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Horst G Kausch wrote: >In my experience producing .ps output first and the running ps2pdf does not >produce satisfactory output since the .pdf file then contains bitmapped fonts. You could use "gv" and ghostscript instead of acroread to display pdf documents: it can antialias the bitmapped fonts too. (ie. new versions of ghostscript can read pdf too, at least Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50) Or you could change Layout->Document->Fonts to "times" which (I guess) uses Type1 fonts and, when exported to .ps and .pdf with ps2pdf, produces good looking antialiased fonts even in acroread. This all works with standard LaTeX/TeX (not pdftex required). -- | Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PGP public key | Homepage: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ available] | Try also finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Studying information engineering at the University of Oulu +---
