Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)


View-PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion 
path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a 
viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf).  The export menu item 
requires just (a).  Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is 
the culprit.  Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) 
that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 
PDFs (acrord32?).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Robert Neumann
 Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) 
  that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 

works perfectly now 
thx
Robert







Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)


View-PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion 
path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a 
viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf).  The export menu item 
requires just (a).  Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is 
the culprit.  Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) 
that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 
PDFs (acrord32?).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Robert Neumann
 Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf) 
  that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 

works perfectly now 
thx
Robert







Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
"pdf" is gone, there is only the "dvipdfm" and the "pdflatex". Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)


View->PDF (ps2pdf) shows up automagically if (a) there is a conversion 
path specified that gets from LaTeX to PDF (ps2pdf) and (b) there is a 
viewer defined for the file type PDF (ps2pdf).  The export menu item 
requires just (a).  Since you have the export option, presumably (b) is 
the culprit.  Check in Edit->Preferences...->File formats->PDF (ps2pdf) 
that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 
PDFs (acrord32?).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-04 Thread Robert Neumann
> Check in Edit->Preferences...->File formats->PDF (ps2pdf) 
  that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing 

works perfectly now 
thx
Robert







Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-03 Thread Robert Neumann
I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)
Regards 
Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-03 Thread Robert Neumann
I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
pdf is gone, there is only the dvipdfm and the pdflatex. Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)
Regards 
Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-03 Thread Robert Neumann
I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with  Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136 in the view-menu the
"pdf" is gone, there is only the "dvipdfm" and the "pdflatex". Is there any
possibility to change that. (in the export-menu there is still the pdf which
uses the ps2pdf...)
Regards 
Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 


That makes sense.  After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run 
regedit and search for any lingering registry entries.


Rather mysterious.

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 


That makes sense.  After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run 
regedit and search for any lingering registry entries.


Rather mysterious.

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-12-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 


That makes sense.  After you uninstall MikTeX, you might want to run 
regedit and search for any lingering registry entries.


Rather mysterious.

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
 Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
 General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
 problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
 I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.

I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx
and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...
Regards 
Robert





Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:
Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx
and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...


Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when 
using Times with mathptmx?


Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date 
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)?


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
 
 Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only 
when using Times with mathptmx? 
The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I
 write nothing in the preamble 
  
 Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
 distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 
Regards Robert 
 



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
 Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
 General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
 problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
 I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.

I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx
and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...
Regards 
Robert





Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:
Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for times but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with problems with mathptmx
and times maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...


Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when 
using Times with mathptmx?


Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date 
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)?


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
 
 Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only 
when using Times with mathptmx? 
The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I
 write nothing in the preamble 
  
 Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
 distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 
Regards Robert 
 



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
> Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
> General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button.  I've encountered 
> problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
> I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.

I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for "times" but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with "problems with mathptmx
and times" maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...
Regards 
Robert





Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:
Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


I tried, but it didn't work, then I deinstalled Lyx and MikTeX, cleaned the
registry and installed it new - same error. It is even more strange, because it
worked until a couple of days. I searched the mailing list for "times" but
didn't find anything. I might open up a new thread with "problems with mathptmx
and times" maybe somebody has encountered a similar problem...


Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only when 
using Times with mathptmx?


Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date 
distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)?


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Neumann
 
> Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only 
when using Times with mathptmx? 
The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I
 write nothing in the preamble 
  
> Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is it the latest up-to-date  
> distribution, or are you installing from an archive (or a mix of the two)? 
I used the Lyxinstaller from the lyx wiki download page. Yesterday I installed 
with this Lyxinstaller lyx and MikteX on the computer of a friend - everything 
worked perfectly with times... Thats why I think there must be something 
screwed on my computer. 
Probably I have to search manually after deinstallation if there are some  
left-over configfiles... 
Regards Robert 
 



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:



The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old

files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.


Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20 
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom 
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard

with no second page
\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage

with no second page
\end{document}




Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221

[...]

\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}

[...]

\end{document}


I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View-PDF (ps2pdf) displayed 
both pages correctly.  I noticed that the .tex file you included was 
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x.  I checked the LaTeX export 
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant 
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well.  I 
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you 
load it into 1.4.3 and View-PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?


When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the 
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format 
(\lyxformat 245).  My first suspicion would be that something in the old 
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce 
it with your test document.


What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3, 
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run


  latex test.tex
  dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
  ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf

and open test.pdf?  Is the page still blank?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and 
   many  nostringval
it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and 
   many  nostringval

it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert




Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:



The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old

files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.


Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20 
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom 
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard

with no second page
\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage

with no second page
\end{document}




Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221

[...]

\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}

[...]

\end{document}


I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View-PDF (ps2pdf) displayed 
both pages correctly.  I noticed that the .tex file you included was 
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x.  I checked the LaTeX export 
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant 
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well.  I 
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you 
load it into 1.4.3 and View-PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?


When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the 
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format 
(\lyxformat 245).  My first suspicion would be that something in the old 
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce 
it with your test document.


What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3, 
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run


  latex test.tex
  dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
  ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf

and open test.pdf?  Is the page still blank?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and 
   many  nostringval
it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and 
   many  nostringval

it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert




Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the Update Formats button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:



The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old

files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.


Can you post a small example that fails to compile correctly with ps2pdf?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing other 1.20 
\papersize Custom
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 1
\use_amsmath 1
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 167mm
\paperheight 239mm
\leftmargin 14mm
\topmargin 22mm
\rightmargin 17mm
\bottommargin 19mm
\headsep 8.5mm
\footskip 9mm
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom 
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\layout Standard

with no second page
\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=167mm,paperheight=239mm,tmargin=22mm,bmargin=19mm,
lmargin=14mm,rmargin=17mm,headsep=8.5mm,footskip=9mm}
\setlength\parskip{\smallskipamount}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\makeatletter
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
\renewcommand\labelenumiii{\Roman{enumiii})}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
this is an old file and produces only a blank page
\newpage

with no second page
\end{document}




Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221

[...]

\the_end

and this the tex export:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}

[...]

\end{document}


I loaded the LyX file into LyX 1.4.3-4, and View->PDF (ps2pdf) displayed 
both pages correctly.  I noticed that the .tex file you included was 
exported from LyX 1.3.x rather than 1.4.3-x.  I checked the LaTeX export 
from 1.4.3-4 against yours, and other than a few insignificant 
differences in where line breaks occur, they matched pretty well.  I 
take it this small document displays with a blank first page when you 
load it into 1.4.3 and View->PDF (ps2pdf) on your system?


When you load the document into 1.4.3, it does a conversion from the 
1.3.x LyX file format (\lyxformat 221) to the 1.4.x file format 
(\lyxformat 245).  My first suspicion would be that something in the old 
documents is not converting quite correctly, but I could not reproduce 
it with your test document.


What happens if you load one of the offending documents into LyX 1.4.3, 
export it to LaTeX from there (call the file test.tex), then run


  latex test.tex
  dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
  ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf

and open test.pdf?  Is the page still blank?

/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: "invalidfont in findfont" and 
   many  "nostringval"
it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to "times": then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

ok, we found it
   latex test.tex   worked fine
   dvips -o test.ps test.dvi   worked fine
   ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: "invalidfont in findfont" and 
   many  "nostringval"

it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to "times": then I get
only a blank page.
What I don't understand: I removed Miktex and installed it new. So where to
search?
Regards Robert




Good question.  I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program, 
General tab, and click the "Update Formats" button.  I've encountered 
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after 
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello,
I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine.
Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my 
harddrive.

If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a
blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf...
Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall
an reinstall again.
Thanks
Robert




Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
 Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
 converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
 your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
 MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).

The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old
files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.




Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello,
I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine.
Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my 
harddrive.

If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a
blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf...
Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall
an reinstall again.
Thanks
Robert




Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
 Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
 converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
 your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
 MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).

The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old
files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.




Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Robert Neumann wrote:

Hello,
I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine.
Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my 
harddrive.

If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a
blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf...
Obviously there is something wrong, but I don't know which programm to uninstall
an reinstall again.
Thanks
Robert




Check Tools->Preferences->Converters->Postscript->PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).


/Paul



Re: Problems after Lyx-installation: lyx produces one white page

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Neumann
> Check Tools->Preferences->Converters->Postscript->PDF (ps2pdf).  The 
> converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in 
> your setup.  Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the 
> MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).

The converter is set to ps2pdf, the ps2pdf.bat and exe do exist. 
The funny thing is, that it works with new files and the manual and only my old
files make difficulties.
(I allready tried to remove all my preamble entries to check whether there was
some package which caused the problem, it did't help) A couple of days before I
tried to install some true-type fonts, maybe something went wrong there. But
with the complete new lyx an Tex installation I thought there should be no left
overs.