Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread nicolas roy
Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 15 May 2008 01:46, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. This isn't responsive to your question, but why 100 fonts? You're right -- that is

Re: LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
woodvorg schrieb: Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF under The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do? regards Uwe

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.5 is released]

2008-05-15 Thread ddimuc
As I have mentioned a LONG, LONG time ago - I am unable to unsubscribe to this list (yes, I've sent an e-mail to the proper entity). So, that means I am unnecessarily getting e-mails from the list. Therefore, it would only be fair to unnecessarily send e-mails (whether they apply to LyX or not)

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it turns out

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx seems to use. How can i change it ? Notice than, with beamer, using export ps and by hand ps2pdf solve

Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Only recently I found that under Synaptic, the LyX package being selected, you could right-click and select recommended/suggested packages for

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the document

very little error in lyx 1.5.5

2008-05-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
hello, I have lyx 1.5.5 and opensuse 10.3 (a linux total disaster :-( 1) I selected big icons, work, and when I close lyx or restart the computer, lyx not remember my selection and put medium icons. 2) I selected that lyx remember size and content of main window. I work with maximized window,

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: ps2pdf will

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
I think you are right, Les. The huge number of fonts must be from the figures, which is worrisome b/c I have over 100 figures. Most figures are saved as pdf from matlab, while the rest are printed from powerpoint and tinycad using pdfcreator. For most figures, I use a script to automatically

About bibliography

2008-05-15 Thread NinaNutz
Hello all again, Here I am again with a question that I cannot solve for myself... I'm writing my thesis in lyx 1.4.4 on windows and I would like the bibliography appears first by surname, and then name with a dot. I have the style natbib selected, but actually the bibliography appears

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Angel Amat
Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the documment \usepackage{latexcad}. The next is

Re: Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Angel Amat wrote: Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-15 Thread Máté Salát
Hi, I made some further test on the conversation method of LyX 1.5.5, and I found it's behavior very strange. The point is that I copied the SVG - PDF converter line from the Preferences: inkscape --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=$$o I replaced the $$

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
Got it to work! I followed Les' advice and fixed each figure pdf file. Since I already converted each figure pdf to ps then eps then pdf, I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to do it again. But this time I added some ghostview commands to epstopdf. Originally I had: epstopdf --nocompress

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread nicolas roy
Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 15 May 2008 01:46, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. This isn't responsive to your question, but why 100 fonts? You're right -- that is

Re: LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
woodvorg schrieb: Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF under The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do? regards Uwe

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.5 is released]

2008-05-15 Thread ddimuc
As I have mentioned a LONG, LONG time ago - I am unable to unsubscribe to this list (yes, I've sent an e-mail to the proper entity). So, that means I am unnecessarily getting e-mails from the list. Therefore, it would only be fair to unnecessarily send e-mails (whether they apply to LyX or not)

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it turns out

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx seems to use. How can i change it ? Notice than, with beamer, using export ps and by hand ps2pdf solve

Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Only recently I found that under Synaptic, the LyX package being selected, you could right-click and select recommended/suggested packages for

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the document

very little error in lyx 1.5.5

2008-05-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
hello, I have lyx 1.5.5 and opensuse 10.3 (a linux total disaster :-( 1) I selected big icons, work, and when I close lyx or restart the computer, lyx not remember my selection and put medium icons. 2) I selected that lyx remember size and content of main window. I work with maximized window,

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: ps2pdf will

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
I think you are right, Les. The huge number of fonts must be from the figures, which is worrisome b/c I have over 100 figures. Most figures are saved as pdf from matlab, while the rest are printed from powerpoint and tinycad using pdfcreator. For most figures, I use a script to automatically

About bibliography

2008-05-15 Thread NinaNutz
Hello all again, Here I am again with a question that I cannot solve for myself... I'm writing my thesis in lyx 1.4.4 on windows and I would like the bibliography appears first by surname, and then name with a dot. I have the style natbib selected, but actually the bibliography appears

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Angel Amat
Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the documment \usepackage{latexcad}. The next is

Re: Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Angel Amat wrote: Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-15 Thread Máté Salát
Hi, I made some further test on the conversation method of LyX 1.5.5, and I found it's behavior very strange. The point is that I copied the SVG - PDF converter line from the Preferences: inkscape --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=$$o I replaced the $$

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
Got it to work! I followed Les' advice and fixed each figure pdf file. Since I already converted each figure pdf to ps then eps then pdf, I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to do it again. But this time I added some ghostview commands to epstopdf. Originally I had: epstopdf --nocompress

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread nicolas roy
Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 15 May 2008 01:46, Nathan Miller wrote: > I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and > pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not > embedded. This isn't responsive to your question, but why 100 fonts? You're right -- that is

Re: LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
woodvorg schrieb: Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF under "The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do?" regards Uwe

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.5 is released]

2008-05-15 Thread ddimuc
As I have mentioned a LONG, LONG time ago - I am unable to unsubscribe to this list (yes, I've sent an e-mail to the proper entity). So, that means I am unnecessarily getting e-mails from the list. Therefore, it would only be fair to unnecessarily send e-mails (whether they apply to LyX or not)

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have "lpr" instead of "lp", consider replacing "lp" then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a "lp" binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I > guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx > seems to use. > How can i change it ? > Notice than, with beamer, using "export ps" and by hand "ps2pdf"

Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Only recently I found that under Synaptic, the LyX package being selected, you could right-click and "select recommended/suggested packages for

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: > I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and > pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not > embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the

very little error in lyx 1.5.5

2008-05-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
hello, I have lyx 1.5.5 and opensuse 10.3 (a linux total disaster :-( 1) I selected big icons, work, and when I close lyx or restart the computer, lyx not remember my selection and put medium icons. 2) I selected that lyx remember size and content of main window. I work with maximized window,

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: > The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do > that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final > document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: "ps2pdf will

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
I think you are right, Les. The huge number of fonts must be from the figures, which is worrisome b/c I have over 100 figures. Most figures are saved as pdf from matlab, while the rest are printed from powerpoint and tinycad using pdfcreator. For most figures, I use a script to automatically

About bibliography

2008-05-15 Thread NinaNutz
Hello all again, Here I am again with a question that I cannot solve for myself... I'm writing my thesis in lyx 1.4.4 on windows and I would like the bibliography appears first by surname, and then name with a dot. I have the style natbib selected, but actually the bibliography appears

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: > I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems > like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, > and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Angel Amat
Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the documment \usepackage{latexcad}. The next is

Re: Help with latexcad

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Angel Amat wrote: Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have written in the preamble of the

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-15 Thread Máté Salát
Hi, I made some further test on the conversation method of LyX 1.5.5, and I found it's behavior very strange. The point is that I copied the SVG -> PDF converter line from the Preferences: inkscape --file=$$i --export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=$$o I replaced the

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Miller
Got it to work! I followed Les' advice and fixed each figure pdf file. Since I already converted each figure pdf to ps then eps then pdf, I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to do it again. But this time I added some ghostview commands to epstopdf. Originally I had: epstopdf --nocompress