Stefano Franchi wrote:
I need to recover the ability to generate (and see) a Pdf file via
the dvips route. I lost the relevant items in the "View" menu a long
time ago and never bother fixing the problem, because I was happy with
pdftex. But now I have problems with the latter (after installing some
fancy fonts) and need to go the other route. Can anyone remind me how to
reinstruct LyX to perform the proper conversions?
I am on a Mac, 10.3.9, running LyX 1.3.6 with Gerben Wierda's version of
TeTex. dvips and company work fine when used from the console and/or
TexShop.
The following assumes that Ghostscript is also installed and working,
since you need it for the Postscript->PDF conversion (unless something
else is used on Macs).
Go to the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog. You need two
converters, DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF. On my system (Win XP,
but this should be platform-independent) the Converter: line for
DVI->Postscript is 'dvips -o $$o $$i' with no extra flags; for
Postscript->PDF it is 'ps2pdf13 $$i', again with no flags. (You may
want to experiment with other converters from the Ghostscript lib
directory, such as ps2pdf14.)
If a converter is present but the Converter: line is empty, you can fill
in the field and click Modify and then Save. If a converter is
completely missing, set the From: and To: drop down lists, fill in the
Converter: line, then click New followed by Save.
Paul
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