Problem with the conversion to PDF

Apeiro · Post by **Apeiro** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:09 pm

Hi. I have a problem with LyX 2.2.2 on my mac (OSX 10.12.1 Sierra). I make a document (just text) on LyX and when I do : export -> exportation as and I choose PDF, a message appeares : "No information to export at format PDF(pdflatex).". And same result if I choose another format. Someone has a solution ? Thx

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:32 pm

Hi Apeiro,

welcome to the forum! We had the same error message here: LyX: No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex).

Please try what meho_r said:

meho_r wrote:Probably LyX hasn't recognized the path to LaTeX related stuff. Try this in LyX:

Tools > Reconfigure. Restart LyX after reconfiguration is done.

Tools > TeX Information. Check "Show Path" checkbox and see if the path is correct (you may try with "Rescan" if the path isn't recognized).

Stefan

Apeiro · Post by **Apeiro** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:47 pm

Thanks

but how can I see if the path is correct ?

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:00 pm

Take a look to where you installed TeX. You installed TeX, or didn't you? LyX is just the editor. It requires a TeX installation, such as TeXLive or MiKTeX. A complete installation may be more than 3 GB.

Stefan

Apeiro · Post by **Apeiro** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:02 pm

I've MacTex.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:35 pm

On a Mac with MacTeX the path of the executables is /usr/texbin.

The non-executable files may be in /Library/TeX/Root/.

Stefan

Apeiro · Post by **Apeiro** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:51 pm

I've just files with the extention .cls in this list and the past is /Users/Apeiro/Library/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/ for 3 and /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/ for the other.

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