Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford wrote: Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. So you have crash problems with both 1.4.4-1 and 1.4.4-2 that are unrelated to MiKTeX? Can you please install 1.4.4-2, run LyX with the following command line lyx.exe -dbg any and send me the log (right click copy to clipboard)? That may help to solve this problem. Thanks. Joost
Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford schrieb: I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. You can normally ignore the messages in the console window, when the output is correct. I have no idea what's going wrong there. One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. It works here; Im developing on a WinXP x64 machine. LyX is compiled on a 32bit compiler. The result should be able to run on every Win machine. Some users tested for me that it runs fine under Vista. Are you using Vista x64? If yes, I'll provide a 64bit release the next days with 64bit Python and 64bit GhostScript. LyX will remain as 32bit program but as it is compiled with Microsoft#s MSVC compiler, Microsoft promises that the result will also run on Vista x64(check your WOW32 settings if necessary). environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. What exactly is the error message? regards Uwe
Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford wrote: Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. So you have crash problems with both 1.4.4-1 and 1.4.4-2 that are unrelated to MiKTeX? Can you please install 1.4.4-2, run LyX with the following command line lyx.exe -dbg any and send me the log (right click copy to clipboard)? That may help to solve this problem. Thanks. Joost
Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford schrieb: I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. You can normally ignore the messages in the console window, when the output is correct. I have no idea what's going wrong there. One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. It works here; Im developing on a WinXP x64 machine. LyX is compiled on a 32bit compiler. The result should be able to run on every Win machine. Some users tested for me that it runs fine under Vista. Are you using Vista x64? If yes, I'll provide a 64bit release the next days with 64bit Python and 64bit GhostScript. LyX will remain as 32bit program but as it is compiled with Microsoft#s MSVC compiler, Microsoft promises that the result will also run on Vista x64(check your WOW32 settings if necessary). environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. What exactly is the error message? regards Uwe
Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford wrote: Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. So you have crash problems with both 1.4.4-1 and 1.4.4-2 that are unrelated to MiKTeX? Can you please install 1.4.4-2, run LyX with the following command line lyx.exe -dbg any and send me the log (right click > copy to clipboard)? That may help to solve this problem. Thanks. Joost
Re: Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
Jim Rockford schrieb: I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. You can normally ignore the messages in the console window, when the output is correct. I have no idea what's going wrong there. One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. It works here; Im developing on a WinXP x64 machine. LyX is compiled on a 32bit compiler. The result should be able to run on every Win machine. Some users tested for me that it runs fine under Vista. Are you using Vista x64? If yes, I'll provide a 64bit release the next days with 64bit Python and 64bit GhostScript. LyX will remain as 32bit program but as it is compiled with Microsoft#s MSVC compiler, Microsoft promises that the result will also run on Vista x64(check your WOW32 settings if necessary). environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. What exactly is the error message? regards Uwe
Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe' I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32 bit). My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines, but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly annoying message I see whenever I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. Is this message simply due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I never quite understood this feature of lyx. I remember the days when a latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the bibtex databases). One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. Thanks for your help. Jim
Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe' I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32 bit). My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines, but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly annoying message I see whenever I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. Is this message simply due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I never quite understood this feature of lyx. I remember the days when a latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the bibtex databases). One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. Thanks for your help. Jim
Using alternate 1.4.4 Windows Lyx Installer instead of the one that doesn't work
This message is really in response to Uwe Stöhr, who has been counseling troubled Windows users like me who have been unable to get a working installation of Lyx 1.4.4. Like many others, I've been encountering an immediate crash of lyxc.exe upon trying to launch Lyx. The newest installer 'lyx-144-2.exe' failed for me as well as the previous one. Following Uwe's suggestion, I tried the installer from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall The small installer I used was 'LyXWin144Small-2-11.exe' I am happy to report that this actually worked for me on Windows XP (32 bit). My initial installs failed on two different 32-bit Windoze machines, but this other installer worked on both of them. There is just one mildly annoying message I see whenever I launch a lyx file, and it's related to bibtex. Maybe this is to be expected, but I always get a complaint from the command window saying that lyx couldn't find the bibtex .bib files I specified within the lyx file. It's not a crippling error. I can generate a PDF view and all the references are there correctly. Is this message simply due to the fact that lyx initially looks for .bbl files that aren't there? I never quite understood this feature of lyx. I remember the days when a latex compilation resulted in a .bbl file being created locally (which makes it easier to collaborate, since you could send the .bbl along with the document and your co-writer could see the references without needing the bibtex databases). One final thing. My naive hope that the Lyx Installer would also work for 64-bit XP was dashed. It didn't work. When I attempted to launch lyx I would see a brief flash of the command window, which would then disappear, and no lyx window would appear. In fact, I seem to have quite a bit more trouble with lyx in a 64-bit environment. In 64-bit Fedora Core 6, I'm finding that lyx cannot convert PDF figures. I believe I have all the necessary ingredients installed like ImageMagick, but I get numerous errors such as '/usr/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.py ERROR'. I could use a bit of help with this, actually. Thanks for your help. Jim
