On 03/25/2012 05:13 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Art Edwards icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> writes:
>
>> Could not display "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T25823/lyx_tmpbuf2/MRS_2012.pdf"
>>
>> The location is not a folder.
>>
>> The pdf file exists and is viewable, just not using the view button in lyx.
>>
> Just to be clear, you're saying that if you do View > PDF or View > PDF
> (pdflatex) in LyX, you find the aforenamed PDF file in the LyX buffer
> directory,
> and you can open it manually in your preferred viewer, but LyX reports the
> quoted error message? That being the case, if you look at Tools >
> Preferences >
> File Handling > File Formats and select the appropriate (say, PDF (pdflatex)),
> is the Viewer field set correctly?
>
> Paul
>
>
Yes to everything above the last question. That was the problem. The
Viewer field was set to xdg-open. I changed it to acroread and it works!
Many thanks.
Art Edwards