On Monday 29 January 2007 7:37:13 am Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the > > > semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter > > > in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this > > > happen before, and am frustrated because I've no clue what the issue > > > is. I'm using Debian Sid/LyX 1.4.3. > > > > > > Is someone able to "quickly glance" at it and tell me what weird thing > > > has happened? I'd really appreciate it. I've attached it (I don't > > > think it's too big, but please correct me if wrong). > > > > Kenward, > > > > I loaded it into Lyx 1.4.1 on Gentoo Linux and it came out in Letter > > without me doing anything (see attached). The margins could be evened a > > little, but it's definitely Letter. There may be something different in > > 1.4.3. > > > > Les > > I get the same for pdf output no matter what I set for the margins, when > I use Acrobat. When I use xpdf, it looks great. When I use gv it does > not work. I don't understand the pdf differences, but do know that my > students (from Windows land, with nary a glimpse at much beyond > Word/Acrobat) won't get the proper layout. > > ??? very frustrating.
Which path (alternative) do you use to generate the pdf? pdflatex dvipdfm ps2pdf other? > Thanks for the input, Les! > > > Kenward > > ps. what the heck is "xdg-open?" It keeps popping up iceweasel to > display something, which is a very wasteful move. I'm slowly changing > various format viewers over to what I expect for them--it's faster, more > intelligent (IMHO), and not irritating. Please report the bug to Debian. IIRC the Debian maintainer is very responsive and is reads regularly this list. xdg-open is the freedesktop route to an automatic viewer. It uses the system (desktop environment) default to use the different kind of files. As an example I use kde, as my pdf viewer is kpdf I would like that lyx would use that as the default without having to configure it everytime I install it in a new machine. -- José Abílio
