> 2. start lyxlauncher.exe
>
> Since there is no tex installed, obviously LyX will not have full
> functionality, but the GUI should work. However, two things give
> errors:
>
> 1. configure fails because it cannot find python
> 2. LyX fails to convert an EPS to a bitmap, so there is no preview
Thomas Steffen wrote:
1. configure fails because it cannot find python
2. LyX fails to convert an EPS to a bitmap, so there is no preview
This is because the directories in Resources\lyxrc.dist are wrong.
Joost
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Joost Verburg
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> The build-in ImageMagick does not rely on registry keys but uses the
> environment variables set by LyXLauncher (see the source for details) to get
> the location of the Ghostscript directories. Note that not only @PSdelega
Thomas Steffen wrote:
The other issue was that convert would not recognise ghostscript. I
read that @PSdelegate@ in delegates.xml relies on registry keys, and
indeed replacing it with gswin32c.exe solved the issue. This was
necessary to get previews working for eps files.
The build-in ImageMagi
"Thomas Steffen"
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> That sounds interesting. I know that LyXLauncher does some magic, but
> I was not able to figure out what it was. Is there any way to check
> what LyXLauncher does to the environment?
Try Sandboxie http://www.sandboxie.com/
Hth
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Joost Verburg
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> The standard installer already bundles Ghostscript and ImageMagick in a
> portable way (no registry keys need to be modified).
That sounds interesting. I know that LyXLauncher does some magic, but
I was not able to figure
Thomas Steffen wrote:
I used texlive 2008 as my tex installation, which already provides
some portability. I follow the same basic approach as tl-portable.bat,
but add the necessary environment variables for LyX, convert and
ghostscript. Apart from one problem between the bundled convert and
the
Hi All
I made quite good progress producing a portable LyX installation based
on LyX 1.6.0. What would be the best place to post the instructions?
I think wiki.lyx.org may be suitable, but it looks a bit disorganised
at the moment, and it seems that only developers have access anyway
(?).
I used
