i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
and no ...
still no File->Export->PDF and
no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?
martin
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:35:26PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Let's return this to the lyx-users list...
>
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote:
> > i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these.
> >
> > however, i only have:
> >
> > File->Export->PDF(dvipdfm)
> > File->Export->PDF(pdflatex)
> >
> > there is no
> > File->Export->PDF - which i have at my home box - and that seems to
> > be essential to allow change bars?
>
> That's correct. The changebar stuff post processes the dvi file.
>
> There is no magic here, lyx runs its configure script
> ($PREFIX/share/lyx/configure) to see what's on your box. Run it
> yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be
> illuminating.
>
> Maybe that's all that's missing --- Exit->Reconfigure ? Don't forget
> to restart LyX afterwards. Is the missing item now present?
>
> Angus
