[OS X TeX] Lyx converter error - help please!
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Tue Mar 27 14:28:04 CEST 2007
On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:18 AM, RS Williamson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> apologies - I first started using Mac's yesterday! I'm a PhD
> student, so I've been trying to get Lyx working first so that I can
> continue writing my thesis on my new computer.
>
> I first installed the big mactex package from here:
> http://tug.org/mactex/
> I then installed Lyx before using the terminal to install the
> latest version of aspell to use as a spellchecker.
>
> My main problem now is:
> whenever I try to use ps2pdf, DVI or anything that involves
> converting .png to .eps I get an error saying that Lyx does not
> have a converter to do this!
> The only view option I can get to work is the pdflatex command.
>
> I desperately need to use ps2pdf, so if anyone could give me any
> help or advise me of what I need to download I would appreciate it!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ross
Howdy,
I'm not familiar with Lyx but there are two path settings that should
be set; don't know where it's done in Lyx. The first is the path to
TeX binaries (/usr/texbin) and the second is the path to ghostscript,
etc. (/usr/local/bin).
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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