The image files live on my E: drive. I'm able to build a .ps or .dvi without any figure issues, just not a .pdf.
Also, I still get a [?] instead of citations in the document after I've added my .bib file to the LyX document using the "LyX: BibTeX Bibliography" dialog box. Thanks! -Gabe On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > On 02/01/2011 05:44 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: > >> The -userdir switch as you suggested seems to have fixed the texfiles.py >> failing problem, although now I'm getting a bunch of the following LaTeX >> errors when I try to build a .pdf: >> >> "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine the size of graphic in <...>" >> > That usually means either that the graphic somehow was not copied to the > temp directory or was not properly converted (so, for instance, the source > file is an EPS, LyX tries but fails to convert it to a PDF, and the .tex > file has a link to a nonexistent PDF). If the image files live on a network > server, I suppose you might check whether that's the culprit (by copying > them to E: and adjusting the paths in the LyX file). > > >> Also, the user directory is only set to the E: drive when I open LyX via >> the command prompt using the -userdir switch. Is there a way to make this >> the default setting so whenever I open a .lyx file it uses this switch? Is >> that the start menu hack you mentioned? >> > Yes. > > How do I do that? >> > Right click the icon and click Properties, find the text box containing the > command (I'm on a Linux laptop right now, so I can't quote specifics), and > add the -userdir ... stuff there. If your path contains any spaces, be sure > to enclose it in quotes. > > Another way to do this is to right click the Start button and click Open, > which opens your start menu in Windows Explorer. (At least, this works on > XT; can't swear about Win 7.) Drill down to the folder containing the LyX > icon and do the right click > Properties act there. > > /Paul > > -- Gabriel Kniffin Research Assistant Northwest Electromagnetics and Acoustics Research Laboratory (NEAR-Lab) http://nearlab.ece.pdx.edu/ Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Portland State University (503) 725-3813 Lab (360) 521-8772 Mobile
