Lyx Question

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Please send. And do you know how the graphics get exported to PDF? Mine 
still won't convert, it just drops it. Maybe it has something to do with 
the format of the graphic. Maybe I should convert it to jpg or png from gif.
Thank you.
Bob

Cyber Source wrote:
> Never having used or heard of lyx, I thought I would try it out. So I 
> yummed it, checked it out on my FC4 box and I saw that when I ran it 
> from a command line the first time, it was bitching about 
> "(evince:23247): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module 
> `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libcdda.so' 
> (/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libcdda.so: cannot open shared object 
> file: No such file or directory)
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"
> 
> So, I googled that a bit and seen it's related to gnome-vfs2, so I 
> yummed that and it upgraded a bunch of stuff. Then it looked different 
> on startup (splash was different) and I was able to load an image, 
> export it as a *.pdf and it was all fine, no bitching, etc.. I could 
> send the pdf I made if you would like to see it.
> 
> 
> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone:
>>     Yesterday I was using Lyx to create a document that I intended to 
>> convert to Postscript or PDF. I had imported a graphic for the header 
>> and when I thought everything was OK I converted it to PDF, and sent 
>> it to the printer. After which I discovered the graphic was missing. 
>> Does anyone know how to keep a graphic in the document when converting 
>> from .lyx to .pdf or .ps. I looked in the documentation and it tells 
>> how to get the graphic object into the document but says nothing about 
>> loosing it when converting to PDF format or any other format for that 
>> matter.
>> Your help is always appreciated.
>> Bob
>>
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