Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do?
I'm new to using a Mac, so this may also be my unfamiliarity with OS X. I've downloaded and installed MacTeX, Python, and LyX. (As I understand it, MacTeX includes ImageMagic and ghostscript; just to be sure, I used i-installer to reinstall those packages and still have the same problem.) LyX runs fine, but it can't produce output in any format that's useful for me: not PDF, not PS. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed; do I need some other PDF software? Do I just need to tell LyX how to send the file to a PDF handler? I have encountered this problem in two relatively distinct situations: First, when I try to create any LyX document and preview it or export it to PDF, it tells me: "No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex)" Second, before I realized I had this problem, I created a "scratch" file for purposes of testing LyX and its integration with BibDesk and saved it. Now when I open that file, it gives me the following error message: "The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output." I suspect that "article.layout" is something that should have been included in the bibliography file that I tried to include in this scratch document. If that's the case, this part of the problem can wait; if I can get some kind of meaningful output from LyX I'll settle arguments between LyX and BibDesk later. Thank you! Faith Anne Scott
