Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I would do this but the Problem with Yap is not a bug in LyX. > Windows has a character limit for filenames. If you use a filename with > 220 chars, export the LyX document to .tex, run then LaTeX, and open the > created file with yap no crash occurs. If you view the DVI from within > LyX yap crashes because the dvi file uses then the path > > PSfile="F:/lyxdokumente/lyx/tmp/lyx_tmpdir1060a00924/lyx_tmpbuf0/_lyxdokumente_FILENAME.eps > > > (where FILENAME has 220 chars) and this is too long for ghostscript and > Windows. (Yap uses ghostscript libraries to show eps-files in dvi.) > You can also see this when you use the maximal char number for the > filename in Lyx. Then convert.exe fails to convert the image to ppm as > convert also uses ghostscript. > > But anyway, who uses such long filenames? Should we take care about > this? If yes, we could limit the filename length allowed for LyX to 100 > chars or so, but I don't think this solves the problem in general. > > regards Uwe >
I think Uwe's right, my brief experimentation showed that ghostview actually stops working "earlier" (= already with shorter paths) than miktex/yap, when used to open an eps-file with a long path directly. I even couldn't reproduce the yap-crashes with any file with a path that the windows-explorer still accepted. So save your energy for other bugs ... Again, thanks for the great work, lyx-win will be/is cool. -sven
