Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? Sorry, that was hosed (American slang for broken) rather than hosted. I need to watch my vernacular. :-) If pdflatex at the DOS prompt ran at what you would consider to be normal or acceptable speed, and did not produce any diagnostics, then font generation is not the culprit. A quick test would be to retry the same document in LyX after successfully generating and view the PDF file from DOS. Once the necessary fonts are generated, they are stored on your hard drive, and there is no need to generate them again. So if font generation were an issue, previewing PDF (or DVI) from LyX would be fine once you had done it outside LyX. My guess is that is not the problem. You would seem to have enough RAM (more than I have; I'm jealous), but it's always possible that enough other junk is being loaded to make you RAM-tight. When you preview from LyX and it takes a long time, is the hard drive thrashing (cycling continuously)? That could be an indication that you are short of RAM and doing a lot of page-swapping. Another possibility would be that there is a problem with where LyX is writing temporary files. Tools - Preferences - Paths - Temporary directory will tell you where LyX is putting the temporary files. Is it on your main hard drive, or is it perhaps set to use a network drive? If it's on your machine, does the partition containing that directory have a reasonable amount of free space? (I think this is a stretch, but one difference between your running pdflatex at a DOS prompt and LyX running it is where the files are placed.) One last thing that comes to mind: Is MiKTeX the only LaTeX distribution on your machine? In particular, do you have Cygwin installed? I once had a problem on a machine that had Cygwin: I installed MiKTeX without realizing that Cygwin came with its own version of latex, which was ahead of MiKTeX on the command path. If you run 'pdflatex --version' from a DOS prompt, does it identify itself as MiKTeX-pdfTeX? /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? Sorry, that was hosed (American slang for broken) rather than hosted. I need to watch my vernacular. :-) If pdflatex at the DOS prompt ran at what you would consider to be normal or acceptable speed, and did not produce any diagnostics, then font generation is not the culprit. A quick test would be to retry the same document in LyX after successfully generating and view the PDF file from DOS. Once the necessary fonts are generated, they are stored on your hard drive, and there is no need to generate them again. So if font generation were an issue, previewing PDF (or DVI) from LyX would be fine once you had done it outside LyX. My guess is that is not the problem. You would seem to have enough RAM (more than I have; I'm jealous), but it's always possible that enough other junk is being loaded to make you RAM-tight. When you preview from LyX and it takes a long time, is the hard drive thrashing (cycling continuously)? That could be an indication that you are short of RAM and doing a lot of page-swapping. Another possibility would be that there is a problem with where LyX is writing temporary files. Tools - Preferences - Paths - Temporary directory will tell you where LyX is putting the temporary files. Is it on your main hard drive, or is it perhaps set to use a network drive? If it's on your machine, does the partition containing that directory have a reasonable amount of free space? (I think this is a stretch, but one difference between your running pdflatex at a DOS prompt and LyX running it is where the files are placed.) One last thing that comes to mind: Is MiKTeX the only LaTeX distribution on your machine? In particular, do you have Cygwin installed? I once had a problem on a machine that had Cygwin: I installed MiKTeX without realizing that Cygwin came with its own version of latex, which was ahead of MiKTeX on the command path. If you run 'pdflatex --version' from a DOS prompt, does it identify itself as MiKTeX-pdfTeX? /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? Sorry, that was "hosed" (American slang for "broken") rather than "hosted". I need to watch my vernacular. :-) If pdflatex at the DOS prompt ran at what you would consider to be normal or acceptable speed, and did not produce any diagnostics, then font generation is not the culprit. A quick test would be to retry the same document in LyX after successfully generating and view the PDF file from DOS. Once the necessary fonts are generated, they are stored on your hard drive, and there is no need to generate them again. So if font generation were an issue, previewing PDF (or DVI) from LyX would be fine once you had done it outside LyX. My guess is that is not the problem. You would seem to have enough RAM (more than I have; I'm jealous), but it's always possible that enough other junk is being loaded to make you RAM-tight. When you preview from LyX and it takes a long time, is the hard drive thrashing (cycling continuously)? That could be an indication that you are short of RAM and doing a lot of page-swapping. Another possibility would be that there is a problem with where LyX is writing temporary files. Tools -> Preferences -> Paths -> Temporary directory will tell you where LyX is putting the temporary files. Is it on your main hard drive, or is it perhaps set to use a network drive? If it's on your machine, does the partition containing that directory have a reasonable amount of free space? (I think this is a stretch, but one difference between your running pdflatex at a DOS prompt and LyX running it is where the files are placed.) One last thing that comes to mind: Is MiKTeX the only LaTeX distribution on your machine? In particular, do you have Cygwin installed? I once had a problem on a machine that had Cygwin: I installed MiKTeX without realizing that Cygwin came with its own version of latex, which was ahead of MiKTeX on the command path. If you run 'pdflatex --version' from a DOS prompt, does it identify itself as MiKTeX-pdfTeX? /Paul
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File - Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex file.tex' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File - Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex file.tex' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel.
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Joel Pedro wrote: Hi, I have recently installed LyX 1.5.3 on a Windows XP system. When i attempt to use pdfLaTeX a pdf file is generated at best very slowly and at worst LyX crashes. This happens for simple text only documents (even un-edited LyX templates take several minutes to produce a pdf). Dvi preview is also very slow and sometimes crashes. I do no think the problem is my computer speed (i am using on an Intel T2300 machine 1.66GHz 980MHz .98GB Ram). I have spent a couple of hours looking through manuals and FAQ and searched the forums but cannot find what the problem might be. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, Joel. Are you using MiKTeX? (Not that it should matter.) Try exporting a smallish file from LyX to LaTeX (pdflatex) using File -> Export. Make sure the MiKTeX (or whatever) bin directory is on your command path, then run 'pdflatex ' from a DOS prompt and see if you get any informative diagnostic messages (or screams for mercy). In my experience, when MiKTeX grinds slowly on a less-than-Dickensian document, it's usually because it's cranking out fonts on the fly, so maybe font generation is hosed on your machine (?). /Paul
Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'
Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? cheers, Joel.
