Re: best way to make PDF files?
Jon Fox wrote:
Ah, I didn't make myself clear. There is absolutely no
text in my outputed PDF. The number of pages is ok and
the placement of those little lines just above the
footnotes is ok and the lines surrounding the cells
are there... and nothing else. xpdf seems to show
other pdf files ok, just not mine. Maybe I don't have
the right font or something.
I'll probably have to boot into windows and use
distiller. Ugh.
Oh no, you shouldn´t go that far :-)
I´d suggest the following:
1.) Select default font "times" via Layout - Document
2.) Put the line
\usepackage[ps2pdf,pdftitle={the title of the
document},urlcolor=blue,linktocpage,colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
into your LaTeX-preampble (I assume you´ve installed gs and it
should be version = 5.5). This line dows the following:
pdftitle: Here you can put the title of your document
urlcolor=blue: makes links appear in blue.
linktocpage: only the page number appears as a link in the TOC, nit the
whole text of the chapter, section a.s.o.
colorlinks=true: makes the links visible
hyperref=creates links
3) Export your file as postscript.
4) Run a "ps2pdf postscriptfile pdffile" on it.
5) Forget about to boot into windows :-)
If this doesn´t help feel free to email me the respective LyX-file so
that I can have a look at it and maybe find out what´s going wrong.
Regards,
Stephan
--
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- Product Management -
PHONE: ++49 9254 960673
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Re: best way to make PDF files?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) Date: 10 Jul 2000 18:40:30 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Jon Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Well, | I still don't have a viewable pdf file on my Mandrake | 7 box with texi2pdf. Like ps2pdf it comes out wit | nothing but the lines from the tables and footnotes. | Seems something to do with the fonts perhaps... it ran | with only the complaint that I had eps files, and I | can run eps2png to fix that. | - Jon Fox instead of using texi2pdf, try using pdflatex directly instead. (but you need to run it more than once if you have references, also makeindex must be fun if you havd index, bibtex if you have bibtex references) And read the .log after each run of pdflatex and note all warnings. Lgb c I've here pdflatex in the auctex menu, seems that one bibtex run is needed to build the .bbl file, then two pdflatex runs (as in standard latex) are OK to build the pdf. I don'see any reason why the index and glossary should not work that way, so that inserting a pdflatex line in the File popup menu should not be very difficult. What is needed in addition is: - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, - add a pdftex class option (why not in the PS driver submenu ? PDF is a particular driver) to shift from PS, - leave to the user the epstopdf conversion step. I know it's easier to describe it than to do it, but is is very complicated to implement ? Regards -- Jean-Pierre Sure, but to be able to run pdflatex on the exported .tex, LyX shopuld not put the .eps extensions to figures, to make it easier to import the same files with a pdf, jpg, png,... extensions.
Re: best way to make PDF files?
Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel
Itemization bullets
Hello!
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
Michael
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* Fachbereich Informatik, Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme
* (Dept. of Comp.Science, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems)
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Special font for title and author-lines, or Alt. How to change font in one paragrahp
Hi I'm writing a conference paper that requires me to use Times New Roman (or Times) for the main text, but 18pt Arial bold for the title, 10pt Arial bold for the authors and 10pt Arial for author affilation. All of this should furthermore be left-justified and at the top of the page. I.e., it should look something like this: ---Top of page | Title line in 18pt Arial bold | | Authors in 10pt Arial bold | Author affiliation in 10pt Arial | | | I think that I should probably just use a standard paragraph-type and change font/size for these lines, but how do I do that? And where could I possibly find Arial, further more: how to make it work with LyX? y.s. Christian Ridderström
Re: CVS support
German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | (LyX 1.1.5) | | I'm trying to use control version on my files. I've read the | document that explain it, but iI can't get it works. Using cvs or rcs? (cvs is not working as it should) | I registered my document with a name. After I checked it out | to modify. After some changes was apply I tryied to check in, | but it was disabled. I save my document, and I try again, | check in is disable. | | In what moment I'll can check in my document? Should be possible like you describe it. Lgb
tex errors
when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before producing a dvi file: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) (boot.tex LaTeX2e 1996/12/01 patch level 1 Babel v3.6h and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 1996/10/31 v1.3u Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/misc/setspace.sty) No file boot.aux. Chapter 1. [1] [2] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmtt.fd) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Underfull \vbox (badness 4995) has occurred while \output is active [10] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [17] [18] [19] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] (boot.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on boot.dvi (24 pages, 57920 bytes). Transcript written on boot.log. Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw.
Footer
Title: Footer I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot of help. Thanks Jeff
Re: tex errors
"John" == John Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before John producing a dvi file: Note that these are only warnings. John Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the John format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw. Yes, it could be if the page numbers where these warning occur correspond to your LyX-Code environments. Does adding \raggedbottom in the latex preamble help? JMarc
Re: Footer
Jeff Fleming wrote: I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot of help. Thanks Jeff For customizing footers (and headers, of course) use the package fancyheader. You will find more information about it at e.g. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/fancyhdr (this is the path for a SuSE-installation). Regards, Stephan -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. - Product Management - PHONE: ++49 9254 960673 FAX:++49 9254 960674 CSE GmbH Germany
Re: best way to make PDF files?
From: Rachel Greenham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to evaluate them? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: best way to make PDF files?
C Y wrote: From: Rachel Greenham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to evaluate them? Well, today actually I had a problem converting to PDF a Lyx file with EPS figures. pdflatex produced errors about not recognising .eps files or something. It worked fine if I exported as Postscript and ran ps2pdf on it. -- Rachel
Re: Itemization bullets
Michael Zapf wrote:
Hello!
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
Hi,
that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
Ugly, indeed! Therefor I export to tex and use pdflatex, ... and the
bullets are OK.
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
I don`t know the way to do so...
cu, Jens
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Re: Itemization bullets
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
Hi,
that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
distill is not better, although commercial software. :-(
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
I don`t know the way to do so...
I found one way: Layout-Document-Bullet shape; there one selects the
Ding1 set and the bullet on the upper right. It looks just like the
well-known LaTeX bullet but is displayed and printed properly.
Michael
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* Fachbereich Informatik, Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme
* (Dept. of Comp.Science, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems)
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Re: best way to make PDF files?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: [Creating PDF files] What is needed in addition is: - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, This is a work in progress, actually I work to redo the graphics support of LyX and it will include also using a non-suffixed filename. In the intended feature list is also automatic conversion of file formats so that EPS figures will be translated to PNG (or PDF) for PDF output. However it will take some time to do. Regarding the rest of the stuff, it will probably come after graphics support will allow PDF output (though it could be added right now, but documents with images will not be possible). I hope that in a month or so (depending on my load) the new graphics handling (dubbed InsetGraphics) will be ready for its initial debut, at least to the level that it won't interfere with PDF output (i.e. will not use the suffix), the other requirement from it is to be bug-free and support at least as much features as the current InsetFig does. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers ADD site) " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " - The Angel in the movie Michael
Re: best way to make PDF files?
Jon Fox wrote:
Ah, I didn't make myself clear. There is absolutely no
text in my outputed PDF. The number of pages is ok and
the placement of those little lines just above the
footnotes is ok and the lines surrounding the cells
are there... and nothing else. xpdf seems to show
other pdf files ok, just not mine. Maybe I don't have
the right font or something.
I'll probably have to boot into windows and use
distiller. Ugh.
Oh no, you shouldn´t go that far :-)
I´d suggest the following:
1.) Select default font "times" via Layout - Document
2.) Put the line
\usepackage[ps2pdf,pdftitle={the title of the
document},urlcolor=blue,linktocpage,colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
into your LaTeX-preampble (I assume you´ve installed gs and it
should be version = 5.5). This line dows the following:
pdftitle: Here you can put the title of your document
urlcolor=blue: makes links appear in blue.
linktocpage: only the page number appears as a link in the TOC, nit the
whole text of the chapter, section a.s.o.
colorlinks=true: makes the links visible
hyperref=creates links
3) Export your file as postscript.
4) Run a "ps2pdf postscriptfile pdffile" on it.
5) Forget about to boot into windows :-)
If this doesn´t help feel free to email me the respective LyX-file so
that I can have a look at it and maybe find out what´s going wrong.
Regards,
Stephan
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- Product Management -
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Re: best way to make PDF files?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) Date: 10 Jul 2000 18:40:30 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Jon Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Well, | I still don't have a viewable pdf file on my Mandrake | 7 box with texi2pdf. Like ps2pdf it comes out wit | nothing but the lines from the tables and footnotes. | Seems something to do with the fonts perhaps... it ran | with only the complaint that I had eps files, and I | can run eps2png to fix that. | - Jon Fox instead of using texi2pdf, try using pdflatex directly instead. (but you need to run it more than once if you have references, also makeindex must be fun if you havd index, bibtex if you have bibtex references) And read the .log after each run of pdflatex and note all warnings. Lgb c I've here pdflatex in the auctex menu, seems that one bibtex run is needed to build the .bbl file, then two pdflatex runs (as in standard latex) are OK to build the pdf. I don'see any reason why the index and glossary should not work that way, so that inserting a pdflatex line in the File popup menu should not be very difficult. What is needed in addition is: - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, - add a pdftex class option (why not in the PS driver submenu ? PDF is a particular driver) to shift from PS, - leave to the user the epstopdf conversion step. I know it's easier to describe it than to do it, but is is very complicated to implement ? Regards -- Jean-Pierre Sure, but to be able to run pdflatex on the exported .tex, LyX shopuld not put the .eps extensions to figures, to make it easier to import the same files with a pdf, jpg, png,... extensions.
Re: best way to make PDF files?
Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel
Itemization bullets
Hello!
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
Michael
--
* Michael Zapf --- http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~zapf/
* Fachbereich Informatik, Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme
* (Dept. of Comp.Science, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems)
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Special font for title and author-lines, or Alt. How to change font in one paragrahp
Hi I'm writing a conference paper that requires me to use Times New Roman (or Times) for the main text, but 18pt Arial bold for the title, 10pt Arial bold for the authors and 10pt Arial for author affilation. All of this should furthermore be left-justified and at the top of the page. I.e., it should look something like this: ---Top of page | Title line in 18pt Arial bold | | Authors in 10pt Arial bold | Author affiliation in 10pt Arial | | | I think that I should probably just use a standard paragraph-type and change font/size for these lines, but how do I do that? And where could I possibly find Arial, further more: how to make it work with LyX? y.s. Christian Ridderström
Re: CVS support
German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | (LyX 1.1.5) | | I'm trying to use control version on my files. I've read the | document that explain it, but iI can't get it works. Using cvs or rcs? (cvs is not working as it should) | I registered my document with a name. After I checked it out | to modify. After some changes was apply I tryied to check in, | but it was disabled. I save my document, and I try again, | check in is disable. | | In what moment I'll can check in my document? Should be possible like you describe it. Lgb
tex errors
when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before producing a dvi file: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) (boot.tex LaTeX2e 1996/12/01 patch level 1 Babel v3.6h and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 1996/10/31 v1.3u Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/misc/setspace.sty) No file boot.aux. Chapter 1. [1] [2] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmtt.fd) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Underfull \vbox (badness 4995) has occurred while \output is active [10] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [17] [18] [19] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] (boot.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on boot.dvi (24 pages, 57920 bytes). Transcript written on boot.log. Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw.
Footer
Title: Footer I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot of help. Thanks Jeff
Re: tex errors
"John" == John Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before John producing a dvi file: Note that these are only warnings. John Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the John format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw. Yes, it could be if the page numbers where these warning occur correspond to your LyX-Code environments. Does adding \raggedbottom in the latex preamble help? JMarc
Re: Footer
Jeff Fleming wrote: I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot of help. Thanks Jeff For customizing footers (and headers, of course) use the package fancyheader. You will find more information about it at e.g. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/fancyhdr (this is the path for a SuSE-installation). Regards, Stephan -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. - Product Management - PHONE: ++49 9254 960673 FAX:++49 9254 960674 CSE GmbH Germany
Re: best way to make PDF files?
From: Rachel Greenham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to evaluate them? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: best way to make PDF files?
C Y wrote: From: Rachel Greenham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 Ronald Florence wrote: Shawn Boyette writes: While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on the export-custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to evaluate them? Well, today actually I had a problem converting to PDF a Lyx file with EPS figures. pdflatex produced errors about not recognising .eps files or something. It worked fine if I exported as Postscript and ran ps2pdf on it. -- Rachel
Re: Itemization bullets
Michael Zapf wrote:
Hello!
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
Hi,
that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
Ugly, indeed! Therefor I export to tex and use pdflatex, ... and the
bullets are OK.
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
I don`t know the way to do so...
cu, Jens
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Re: Itemization bullets
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
Hi,
that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
distill is not better, although commercial software. :-(
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
I don`t know the way to do so...
I found one way: Layout-Document-Bullet shape; there one selects the
Ding1 set and the bullet on the upper right. It looks just like the
well-known LaTeX bullet but is displayed and printed properly.
Michael
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* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Re: best way to make PDF files?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: [Creating PDF files] What is needed in addition is: - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, This is a work in progress, actually I work to redo the graphics support of LyX and it will include also using a non-suffixed filename. In the intended feature list is also automatic conversion of file formats so that EPS figures will be translated to PNG (or PDF) for PDF output. However it will take some time to do. Regarding the rest of the stuff, it will probably come after graphics support will allow PDF output (though it could be added right now, but documents with images will not be possible). I hope that in a month or so (depending on my load) the new graphics handling (dubbed InsetGraphics) will be ready for its initial debut, at least to the level that it won't interfere with PDF output (i.e. will not use the suffix), the other requirement from it is to be bug-free and support at least as much features as the current InsetFig does. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers ADD site) " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " - The Angel in the movie Michael
Re: best way to make PDF files?
Jon Fox wrote:
>
> Ah, I didn't make myself clear. There is absolutely no
> text in my outputed PDF. The number of pages is ok and
> the placement of those little lines just above the
> footnotes is ok and the lines surrounding the cells
> are there... and nothing else. xpdf seems to show
> other pdf files ok, just not mine. Maybe I don't have
> the right font or something.
>
> I'll probably have to boot into windows and use
> distiller. Ugh.
>
Oh no, you shouldn´t go that far :-)
I´d suggest the following:
1.) Select default font "times" via Layout -> Document
2.) Put the line
\usepackage[ps2pdf,pdftitle={the title of the
document},urlcolor=blue,linktocpage,colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
into your LaTeX-preampble (I assume you´ve installed gs and it
should be version >= 5.5). This line dows the following:
pdftitle: Here you can put the title of your document
urlcolor=blue: makes links appear in blue.
linktocpage: only the page number appears as a link in the TOC, nit the
whole text of the chapter, section a.s.o.
colorlinks=true: makes the links visible
hyperref=creates links
3) Export your file as postscript.
4) Run a "ps2pdf postscriptfile pdffile" on it.
5) Forget about to boot into windows :-)
If this doesn´t help feel free to email me the respective LyX-file so
that I can have a look at it and maybe find out what´s going wrong.
Regards,
Stephan
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Re: best way to make PDF files?
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) >>Date: 10 Jul 2000 18:40:30 +0200 >>User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 >> >>Jon Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>| Well, >>| I still don't have a viewable pdf file on my Mandrake >>| 7 box with texi2pdf. Like ps2pdf it comes out wit >>| nothing but the lines from the tables and footnotes. >>| Seems something to do with the fonts perhaps... it ran >>| with only the complaint that I had eps files, and I >>| can run eps2png to fix that. >>| - Jon Fox >> >>instead of using texi2pdf, try using pdflatex directly instead. >>(but you need to run it more than once if you have references, also >>makeindex must be fun if you havd index, bibtex if you have bibtex >>references) >>And read the .log after each run of pdflatex and note all warnings. >> >>Lgb >>c I've here pdflatex in the auctex menu, seems that one bibtex run is needed to build the .bbl file, then two pdflatex runs (as in standard latex) are OK to build the pdf. I don'see any reason why the index and glossary should not work that way, so that inserting a pdflatex line in the File popup menu should not be very difficult. What is needed in addition is: - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, - add a pdftex class option (why not in the PS driver submenu ? PDF is a particular driver) to shift from PS, - leave to the user the epstopdf conversion step. I know it's easier to describe it than to do it, but is is very complicated to implement ? Regards -- Jean-Pierre Sure, but to be able to run pdflatex on the exported .tex, LyX shopuld not put the .eps extensions to figures, to make it easier to import the same files with a pdf, jpg, png,... extensions.
Re: best way to make PDF files?
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Shawn Boyette writes: > > While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to > rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to > integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? > > I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on > the export->custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope > printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output > were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration > options like those offered for html. Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents to people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but the UI is 'orrid. -- Rachel
Itemization bullets
Hello!
When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
preserve the bullet character?
Michael
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* Fachbereich Informatik, Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme
* (Dept. of Comp.Science, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems)
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Special font for title and author-lines, or Alt. How to change font in one paragrahp
Hi I'm writing a conference paper that requires me to use Times New Roman (or Times) for the main text, but 18pt Arial bold for the title, 10pt Arial bold for the authors and 10pt Arial for author affilation. All of this should furthermore be left-justified and at the top of the page. I.e., it should look something like this: ---Top of page | Title line in 18pt Arial bold | | Authors in 10pt Arial bold | Author affiliation in 10pt Arial | | | I think that I should probably just use a standard paragraph-type and change font/size for these lines, but how do I do that? And where could I possibly find Arial, further more: how to make it work with LyX? y.s. Christian Ridderström
Re: CVS support
German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | (LyX 1.1.5) | | I'm trying to use control version on my files. I've read the | document that explain it, but iI can't get it works. Using cvs or rcs? (cvs is not working as it should) | I registered my document with a name. After I checked it out | to modify. After some changes was apply I tryied to check in, | but it was disabled. I save my document, and I try again, | check in is disable. | | In what moment I'll can check in my document? Should be possible like you describe it. Lgb
tex errors
when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before producing a dvi file: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) (boot.tex LaTeX2e <1996/12/01> patch level 1 Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 1996/10/31 v1.3u Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/misc/setspace.sty) No file boot.aux. Chapter 1. [1] [2] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmtt.fd) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Underfull \vbox (badness 4995) has occurred while \output is active [10] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [17] [18] [19] Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has occurred while \output is active [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] (boot.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on boot.dvi (24 pages, 57920 bytes). Transcript written on boot.log. Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw.
Footer
Title: Footer I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot of help. Thanks Jeff
Re: tex errors
> "John" == John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> when I run latex on my .tex file it gives some errors before John> producing a dvi file: Note that these are only warnings. John> Could any of this be the reason why lyx-code is screwing up the John> format of my book? I am using lyx 1.0.4 btw. Yes, it could be if the page numbers where these warning occur correspond to your LyX-Code environments. Does adding \raggedbottom in the latex preamble help? JMarc
Re: Footer
> Jeff Fleming wrote: > > I am needing to place a logo in the footer and the page number. > Question: how to make the logo on the left for odd pages, right for > even pages. Page Number on right for odd pages, left for even pages? > > Creating my first manual in Lyx and advice to user list has been a lot > of help. Thanks > > Jeff For customizing footers (and headers, of course) use the package fancyheader. You will find more information about it at e.g. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/fancyhdr (this is the path for a SuSE-installation). Regards, Stephan -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. - Product Management - PHONE: ++49 9254 960673 FAX:++49 9254 960674 CSE GmbH Germany
Re: best way to make PDF files?
>From: Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 > >Ronald Florence wrote: > > > > Shawn Boyette writes: > > > > While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to > > rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to > > integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? > > > > I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on > > the export->custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope > > printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output > > were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration > > options like those offered for html. > >Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents >to >people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if >they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice >PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation >is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but >the UI is 'orrid. > >-- >Rachel What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to evaluate them? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: best way to make PDF files?
C Y wrote: > > >From: Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: best way to make PDF files? > >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:49 +0100 > > > >Ronald Florence wrote: > > > > > > Shawn Boyette writes: > > > > > > While we're on the subject, I've noticed that PDF output seems to > > > rapidly be moving towards the preferred format. Are there plans to > > > integrate PDF production more tightly into LyX? > > > > > > I'd second this suggestion. It's possible to configure pdflatex on > > > the export->custom menu, but we already preconfigure an envelope > > > printing script into that menu, so it would be handy if PDF output > > > were a regular menu option for output, with lyxrc configuration > > > options like those offered for html. > > > >Thirded. :-) PDF is a pretty universal way of sending formatted documents > >to > >people; regardless of operating system they can easily install a reader if > >they don't already have one. Also, LyX does produce (indirectly) very nice > >PDF assuming the fonts problem is resolved, but the PDF contents generation > >is a good idea too. xdvi is a bit ugly - the rendering is nice enough, but > >the UI is 'orrid. > > > >-- > >Rachel > > What the heck. I'll fourth it. Has anyone done a study to see what the > most efficient way to produce pdf is? (I.e. not just found A way to do it, > but tried lots of them to see which gives the smallest file size, etc.) My > way is to export to tex and then use pdflatex, converting any graphics with > ps2pdf first. I've seen several other ways described. Any ideas on how to > evaluate them? Well, today actually I had a problem converting to PDF a Lyx file with EPS figures. pdflatex produced errors about not recognising .eps files or something. It worked fine if I exported as Postscript and ran ps2pdf on it. -- Rachel
Re: Itemization bullets
Michael Zapf wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
> LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
> for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
Hi,
that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
> The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
> the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
> when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
> display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
Ugly, indeed! Therefor I export to tex and use pdflatex, ... and the
bullets are OK.
> It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
> preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
> preserve the bullet character?
I don`t know the way to do so...
cu, Jens
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Re: Itemization bullets
> >
> > When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
> > LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
> > for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
>
> Hi,
>
> that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
distill is not better, although commercial software. :-(
> > It seems as if I had to change the itemization characters manually (in the
> > preamble) because I didn't find a LyX setting for it. Or is there any way to
> > preserve the bullet character?
>
> I don`t know the way to do so...
I found one way: Layout->Document->Bullet shape; there one selects the
Ding1 set and the bullet on the upper right. It looks just like the
well-known LaTeX bullet but is displayed and printed properly.
Michael
--
* Michael Zapf --- http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~zapf/
* Fachbereich Informatik, Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme
* (Dept. of Comp.Science, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems)
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Re: best way to make PDF files?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: [Creating PDF files] > What is needed in addition is: > - remove the .eps extensions after file selection for figures to use the > ability of graphicx to deal with any kind of extensions, This is a work in progress, actually I work to redo the graphics support of LyX and it will include also using a non-suffixed filename. In the intended feature list is also automatic conversion of file formats so that EPS figures will be translated to PNG (or PDF) for PDF output. However it will take some time to do. Regarding the rest of the stuff, it will probably come after graphics support will allow PDF output (though it could be added right now, but documents with images will not be possible). I hope that in a month or so (depending on my load) the new graphics handling (dubbed InsetGraphics) will be ready for its initial debut, at least to the level that it won't interfere with PDF output (i.e. will not use the suffix), the other requirement from it is to be bug-free and support at least as much features as the current InsetFig does. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers AD site) " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " - The Angel in the movie Michael
