Bob Lounsbury wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez wrote:
> Hello Fellow LyX users! I need some help...please!
>
> Problem: When I try to use any of the view or export features (e.g.,
> pdflatex, ps2pdf, etc.), the software seems to get in a loop utilizing
> about 50% CPU. My system is a 2.6Ghz Intel duo processor Windows XP
> with all update service packs. I used the Standard Web Installer:
> LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe
> <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.4/LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe> (10 MB).
This installer will setup a complete LyX environment, required
> components will be downloaded automatically...from
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. Everything seems to have installed
> ok, and I have created a book using LyX. I just cannot create a PDF or
> DVI output file
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez
>
Does this happen with other documents, or just the book you created? If
it's just the book, I suspect that MiKTeX is choking on something. Try
exporting the book to a LaTeX file and running MiKTeX on it from a
command prompt. Maybe MiKTeX will throw up a message indicating what's
going wrong. Another possibility is divide-and-conquer; lop out about
half the book and see if you can get a PDF out of the rest. If so, try
adding back bits at a time until something comes unglued.
/Paul
I'm wondering if MiKTeX is installed as the link he points to is not
the 'complete' installer.
Bob
If there's no MiKTeX (or other LaTeX distro), the LyX installer should
fail during the configuration script, and I don't think he'd be able to
open documents. But I'm not positive about that.
/Paul
