how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-14 Thread Nathan Miller
I've used Lyx for writing my thesis and it has been wonderful! Everything works beautifully and I'm ready to submit my final pdf file. However, I just realized I need to embed all the fonts in the pdf, and I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. I've found lots of information on using ps

LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?

2008-05-14 Thread woodvorg
I was looking at properties of the PDF I'm outputting, and all the fonts are along the lines of "CMBX12 (Embedded subset)", or "F16". When I zoom right in on text, it's clearly raster fonts. But I think I'm just using the default latex font (which I see in most latex pdfs). I've attached the layo

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes > are obtained from the file ("get from file"), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure > (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. This was a bug in ImageMagick. Update to ImageMagick 6.3.8-1

Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Bo, > agh, sorry wrong list :( pavel

Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Bo, thanks for your responses. > > - was there some conclusion about filename extension? if there are going > > to be > > any tricks with copying or moving .lyx file itself i smell thousand and > > one > > problems of rewrites, bad deletions on user side etc. i think that some > > .lyz >

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. > I'm > hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. > > I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go > back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will re

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some > exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 > series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture > notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class > powerdot, i have an alert : > > the layout file requested by this document > powerdot.layout > is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file > required by it

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread nicolas roy
nicolas roy a écrit : I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex,

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread nicolas roy
I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have rece

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:55:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. > I'm > hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. > > I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-05-14 Thread Micha
On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:18:40 +0100 Peleg Michaeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have opened an Ubuntu page on the wiki, and also added this: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux > Don't know if it's needed under ubuntu but under debian you also need the t1utils package. Don't know how to e

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: > So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 > documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. It should not, if it does that and is not documented in NEWS or RELEASE-NOTES it is a bug and it should be fixed. So if you want to

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Gyorgy Pota
Dear Pavel, I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I wo

How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reform

LyX compiled easily on Mandriva 2008 spring, 64 bit

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, After the horror show compiling LyX for Mandriva 2007, I was expecting trouble when Mandriva 2008 spring 64 bit didn't come with LyX. But no problem -- I downloaded LyX 1.5.4, and did: ./configure make src/lyx and it worked perfectly, so far as I can tell. I haven't actually made any

Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Yes, please report this issue to the LyX debian package manager (this is Sven Höxter as far as I know). regards Uwe

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > Sorry, i did not precise : > i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 > > nicolas > > nicolas roy a écrit : > > Hi everybody, > > > > I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several > > problems. Of course, like always, i waited for

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-14 Thread Máté Salát
Thanks, I did what you told me. It works now, in LyX Preferences SVG converters appeared using Inkscape. I have a problem with SVGs containing raster picture. I made a capture to explain the case: http://zaradek.hu/svg/Linked_image_not_found.png. I use Inkscape to put captions made by LaTeX ont

endfloat package and sideways figures + tables

2008-05-14 Thread Joscha Legewie
Hi, I have some problems with the endfloat package in combination with sideways figures + tables. Rotated floats are not directly supported by endfloat. According to the endfloat documentation, there is an alternative configuration file called efxmpl.cfg which should fix the problem after ren

Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Jewell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm >> in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as >> a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. > > Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? > Ok, ins

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this problem only occurs with pdflatex output. What exactly is the problem? Does it appear for any document? Please open a bug report and attach there a small example file to be able to reproduce the

Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Chris Jewell schrieb: There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? regards Uwe

Re: Bibtex question

2008-05-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Miles wrote: > Hi. > Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how > to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago > Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago > Manual of Style section on this webpage: > ht

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:38:02 Neal Becker wrote: > Not sure what you mean here. Help->Customization-> Chapter 6 - Including External Material -- José Abílio

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread nicolas roy
Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time

problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread nicolas roy
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread Neal Becker
José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: >> I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format >> this to a file to include in lyx? >> >> I tried making a file with: >> >> \begin_layout Standard >> \begin_inset Graphics >> filename N=512

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: > I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format > this to a file to include in lyx? > > I tried making a file with: > > \begin_layout Standard > \begin_inset Graphics > filename N=512,e=--20.pdf > width 1

Bibtex question

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel Miles
Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage: http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTex/

Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread Neal Becker
I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line% \end_inset And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not

Re: smaller text in table

2008-05-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. What works for me is highlighting all the text in the table

Re: smaller text in table

2008-05-14 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I use the text style dialog and it works : I select the text in the table and I change the font size... (Works on 1.5.5 on Windows XP ) Hope it helps. Siegfried.

Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt

2008-05-14 Thread Joost Verburg
D.Zorig wrote: Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. I think a mirror server contains an outdated version. Try this one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/

smaller text in table

2008-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. Wolfgang

Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format

2008-05-14 Thread G. Milde
On 14.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > Thanks for the reply, > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: > > The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it > > directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). There is even a windows version of Inkskape, so you could

Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt

2008-05-14 Thread Manveru
I had similar problem with Polish some time ago. I manually installed proper dictionary for Aspell, not even those orginal one from Aspell pages but from projects connected I think with OpenOffice - they have much better dictionaries. 2008/5/14 D. Zorig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Has anyo

Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Jewell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 distro onto my machine, together with LyX that I am using to write my PhD thesis because I love the way that it doesn't let control codes get in the way of the prose. There seems to be a very nagging prob

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using > older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX > installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX > directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMag

Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX

2008-05-14 Thread Peleg Michaeli
Ok, I have succeded to export to TeX, and I am now trying asymptote as the instructions advised. It is NOT a LyX question, I guess, but still it might be useful to ask it here, since I believe that there are LyX users who use Asymptote... and because it might be still LyX related, because of the f

Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: > The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it > directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). > > > Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, > > MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF,

Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX

2008-05-14 Thread Peleg Michaeli
Oh, I see... They also wrote this line under that figure: "For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥ 1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly" - but I have misunderstood it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥ 1.14), I *don't* need to do that. Well, then... I am looking for a wo

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-14 Thread G. Milde
On 13.05.08, Jim Rockford wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim Rockford schrieb: > > > > I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With > > > the change tracker, when I elect to "Show Changes In Output" I get > > > the fo