RE: LyX Win32 installation problem

make sure that in Edit->Preferences->File Formats the viewer box has a path
to the viewer for each type (pdf,ps,dvi,ect.).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nirmal Govind
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:11 AM
> To: lyx-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: LyX Win32 installation problem
>
>
> Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on
> windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure
> script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to
> dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before
> installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So
> right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX.
> Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have
> much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help...
> incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few
> weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same
> procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that
> this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed,
> which we deleted before installing the latest version...
>
> Thanks,
> nirmal
>