Printing using Aqua-Lyx

[Gattuso, Jean-Pierre]

Hi:

I am a newbie with Lyx and have played with it 
for little more than an hour but fail printing.

I think that I installed all the bits and pieces 
indicated in the Lyx/Mac web page: gimp-print, 
esp ghostscript. I have also set the name of my 
printer which I found in /private/etc/printcap, 
and have configured textconfig (as indicated in 
the User's guide).

Yet the print option of the file" menu is dimmed. 
Also, the Lyx/Mac web page indicates that one can 
also print by previewing pdf and printing from 
preview. I did not even found how one previews 
with pdf...

Any help would be appreciated...
jp
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Re: Printing using Aqua-Lyx

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:07:35PM +0200, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I am a newbie with Lyx and have played with it 
> for little more than an hour but fail printing.
> 
> I think that I installed all the bits and pieces 
> indicated in the Lyx/Mac web page: gimp-print, 
> esp ghostscript. I have also set the name of my 
> printer which I found in /private/etc/printcap, 
> and have configured textconfig (as indicated in 
> the User's guide).
> 
> Yet the print option of the file" menu is dimmed. 
> Also, the Lyx/Mac web page indicates that one can 
> also print by previewing pdf and printing from 
> preview. I did not even found how one previews 
> with pdf...
> 
> Any help would be appreciated...

Which LyX Version?

Output of Edit->Reconfigure?

Can you view .dvi from within LyX?

Can you view .ps from within LyX?

Can you view .dvi elsewhere?

Can you view .ps elsewhere?

Andre'

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Re: Printing using Aqua-Lyx

[Tomoharu Nishino]

Hi:

I am a newbie with Lyx and have played with it for little more than an 
hour but fail printing.

I think that I installed all the bits and pieces indicated in the 
Lyx/Mac web page: gimp-print, esp ghostscript. I have also set the 
name of my printer which I found in /private/etc/printcap, and have 
configured textconfig (as indicated in the User's guide).
You do not indicate whether or not you properly installed all of the 
LaTeX components necessary to use LyX.  (I am guessing from the fact 
that the "Print" option is dimmed that you do not have the necessary 
components properly set up.)

To check to see that you have LyX and all the necessary components of 
TeX/LaTeX properly installed, do this:
1. "Edit-->Reconfigure"
2. Restart LyX
3. Open (or create) a short document.
4. Click on the View menu.  At the top of the menu you should see DVI, 
PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), PDF (pdflatex),...  If you do not see these options 
to preview the document, you most likely do not have LaTeX properly set 
up.

Alternatively, you can open up the "Console" application right after 
you do step 1, and view the log to see whether LyX has found the 
necessary LaTeX components.

If LaTeX is not properly installed, please see my website 
http://www.la.utexas.edu/~tnishino/osx_lyx/ for detailed instructions 
on installing the various necessary components to use LyX-Aqua.

Yet the print option of the file" menu is dimmed. Also, the Lyx/Mac 
web page indicates that one can also print by previewing pdf and 
printing from preview. I did not even found how one previews with 
pdf...

Any help would be appreciated...
jp
Assuming you have everything properly set up, to view the document 
using Preview, this is what you need to do.  Open the Preferences to 
"File formats".  In each of the PDF entries set the viewer to "open -a 
Preview".  Remember to click modify to get LyX to register the change, 
and save to make the Preference change permanent.

(Similarly, if you want to use Acrobat, you can enter "open -a Acrobat" 
instead.)

Then with the document you want to preview open, select View-->PDF from 
the menus.  This should compile the document, launch the Preview app, 
and display the fully formatted document.

Hope this helps.

Tomoharu Nishino