On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Paul Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > So, despite the message, the PDF file does not show up in the directory > where > the LyX doc lives? Try exporting and (with LyX still running) use Windows > Explorer to check the LyX temporary directory. (If you're not sure where > that > is, check Tools > Preferences > Paths > Temporary directory. I could > pretty > much tell you from memory where it is on XP, but Win 7 moved stuff around, > and > I'm not on a Win box right now.) Assuming you can find the directory, if > the > PDF file is sitting in it, then the problem may be something with access > permissions for the directory where the source document is (unlikely, > but possible). > > I tried that, changing the temp directory to Documents. I saw lots of intermediate files but not the PDF.
> Are Acrobat Reader and Foxit on your system command path (meaning: can you > run > either one from a DOS prompt)? If not, it's possible that adding one or > both to > your system path and then reconfiguring LyX might fix the problem. > How do I do that? -- ------------- Jane Shevtsov Ecology Ph.D. candidate, University of Georgia co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." --Francois Fenelon, theologian and writer (1651-1715)
