Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
On 2012-05-30, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > I managed to get a postscript file once from Kubuntu, but then I tried > again LyX refused. I have converted images to .eps and sometimes back to > jpg when the log states that it stopped at those images and still no luck > converting to postscript. > In Windows I have done the conversion several times without any problems. I > am beginning to suspect that it is a bug in the software handling the > process or in how memory is handled by the different systems. The file is > rather big with many big images so perhaps this is the problem. > I must be content with the postscript file made in Windows and I don't > think that I am able to solve the problem on Kubuntu. As I said it is very > strange since I can convert other very similar big manuscripts that also > contain a lot of jpg images. You may also create a PDF file and convert it to PS later. For the error hunt, try to split the problematic document into two - run each to see if it works, repeat for the not running one, ... Or put the images into note boxes until compiling works to find out which one(s) is/are problematic. Create a minimal¹ example for a problematic file and post it here ¹ throw out everything not required to (re)create the error. Günter
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
2012/5/30 Ingar Pareliussen > Just a thought: could it be that your /tmp directory almost full? If lyx > does not have enough space to copy and convert all the image files in the > tmp directory strange things may happen. > > Ingar > > I thought on that too. I moved the tmp folder in LyX temporarily to my homefolder with more space, but the result was the same, no postscriptfile, even if LyX worked noticeable faster. Påvel
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
Just a thought: could it be that your /tmp directory almost full? If lyx does not have enough space to copy and convert all the image files in the tmp directory strange things may happen. Ingar - Reply message - From: "Påvel Nicklasson" To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" Subject: Problem compiling document to Postscript Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 09:30 I managed to get a postscript file once from Kubuntu, but then I tried again LyX refused. I have converted images to .eps and sometimes back to jpg when the log states that it stopped at those images and still no luck converting to postscript. In Windows I have done the conversion several times without any problems. I am beginning to suspect that it is a bug in the software handling the process or in how memory is handled by the different systems. The file is rather big with many big images so perhaps this is the problem. I must be content with the postscript file made in Windows and I don't think that I am able to solve the problem on Kubuntu. As I said it is very strange since I can convert other very similar big manuscripts that also contain a lot of jpg images.
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
I managed to get a postscript file once from Kubuntu, but then I tried again LyX refused. I have converted images to .eps and sometimes back to jpg when the log states that it stopped at those images and still no luck converting to postscript. In Windows I have done the conversion several times without any problems. I am beginning to suspect that it is a bug in the software handling the process or in how memory is handled by the different systems. The file is rather big with many big images so perhaps this is the problem. I must be content with the postscript file made in Windows and I don't think that I am able to solve the problem on Kubuntu. As I said it is very strange since I can convert other very similar big manuscripts that also contain a lot of jpg images.
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
Durign the latest try I just recieved an error message (in Swedish): Ett fel uppstod vid körning av: dvips -t a4 -o "Symposieskrift.ps" "Symposieskrift.dvi" (An error occurred during operation: dvips -t a4 -o "Symposieskrift.ps" "Symposieskrift.dvi") or something similar in English. There were no log popping up and thus nothing to check. I retrieved the log from View -> Messages and attach it. I can't see anything obviously wrong, but the most logical for me is that the last images in the log should be the problematic ones and shoudl thus be converted to eps? log Description: Binary data
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
Thank You for your suggestions! I don't think that the culprit is ImageMagick, since several very similar documents with lots of JPG:s compile to ps without any problem. I will test to reinstall ImageMagick however. I have removed parts of the documents and managed to get some child documents to compile by converting images to .eps. Now I am stuck on a part where I have changed the images to .eps, but LyX still refuses to compile to ps correctly. The resulting ps-file opens, but is faulty: pages and images are not showing and images are misplaced. I have noticed that, my pdf-reader, Okular, uses a lot of power while showing the ps-file and even seems to freeze. Perhaps there is something wrong here, but Okular works fine with all other documents and ps-files. The logs does not say much, just that there may be problems with some image (even images that transfers well). The logs are surprisingly clean for such faulty behvaiour. I see if I can catch something useful to post. Since the manuscript must be delivered real soon I think that I have to do the final work in Windows and postpone some of the bughunt until after the deadline. I believe this is very strange and I intend to find out where the fault is.
Re: Problem compiling document to Postscript
On 05/28/2012 05:08 AM, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: I have a large book-sized document with several child documents. I use LyX 2.0.3 on Kubuntu 12.04. I need to compile the file to postscript for further conversion ahead of printing. The compilation stops with no meaningful error messages (at least for me). The log may indicate problems with images. I mostly use JPG. I have converted some images to eps after these messages, but the file wont compile anyway. Should I substitute all JPG images with eps? The strange thing is that the file compiles OK to postscript on Windows 7 (LyX 2.0.3). Other very similar documents compiles OK to postscript on Kubuntu. Other formats such as PDFLaTeX work OK. I don‘t know even how to begin look for a solution. Any suggestions are appreciated! First, try posting the log here, and see if anyone can see the problem. Second, bisect: Remove the last half of the document; see if that works. If not, remove another half. If so, put that back and remove the first half. Etc. Richard
Problem compiling document to Postscript
I have a large book-sized document with several child documents. I use LyX 2.0.3 on Kubuntu 12.04. I need to compile the file to postscript for further conversion ahead of printing. The compilation stops with no meaningful error messages (at least for me). The log may indicate problems with images. I mostly use JPG. I have converted some images to eps after these messages, but the file wont compile anyway. Should I substitute all JPG images with eps? The strange thing is that the file compiles OK to postscript on Windows 7 (LyX 2.0.3). Other very similar documents compiles OK to postscript on Kubuntu. Other formats such as PDFLaTeX work OK. I don‘t know even how to begin look for a solution. Any suggestions are appreciated! Regards Påvel
