Fwd: MWE: two issues need resolving

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Oups. I replied only to Steve. My message is at the end. 

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> De: Murat Yildizoglu <myildi at gmail.com>
> Date: 29 octobre 2022 à 18:58:45 UTC+7
> À: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> Objet: Rép. : MWE: two issues need resolving
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Le 29 oct. 2022 à 18:45, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> I'm taking the unusual step of top-posting because my comments pertain
>> to the entirety of Rich's post...
>> 
>> Rich, this was not a quality MWE. The map's PDF had a hard-coded path
>> that needed to be erased. Your bibliographies failed because you didn't
>> include ../jabrefdb.bib, or at least it didn't exist on my computer.
>> Given that your complaints didn't seem to involve your bibliography, it
>> would have made our lives easier if you'd removed your bibliography
>> reference, and also if your MWE operated from files in one directory,
>> and you tested to make sure only the asked-about problems were in the
>> MWE.
>> 
>> After taking the time to remove hard coded paths, get rid of your
>> bibliography entry (because no ../jabrefdb.bib), and set your
>> bibliography back to Bibtex(Basic), it compiled on my LyX Version
>> 2.3.6.1, and by clicking your map image and checking the "scale
>> graphics" box and putting a number in the field to its right, I was
>> able to scale the map, on the resulting compiled PDF, to any size I
>> wanted to, including 75%, which didn't page feed.
>> 
>> If your LyX version is later than 2.3.6.1 then maybe the version change
>> accounts for your image scaling trouble. Otherwise, go back and make
>> your MWE a real MWE and keep narrowing it down until you find the root
>> cause.
>> 
>> SteveT
>> 
>> Steve Litt 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Rich Shepard said on Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>>> The figure will not resize. Originally at 75% text width I tried to
>>> make it smaller so it wouldn't be on a page by itself, but even at 25%
>>> it stays the same size when I compile the document. Also, I modified
>>> the caption and the change is not shown in the compiled .pdf. Perhaps
>>> this is related to the next issue:
>>> 
>>> Compiling the document produces errors that the old-format, '\sc', is
>>> no longer valid, but the error points to a PDF stored in JabRef. I've
>>> no idea where pdflatex finds that code in a .pdf file.
>>> 
>>> Not a fun start to Friday. The .lyx file, .pdf image, and .pdf article
>>> are available (for 5 days) from
>>> <http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g258e05271f382a1e1000460491172b957e2f9f6e09>
>>> as the 2+Mb file is too large for the mail list.
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> 
>>> Rich
>>> 
> 
> I don’t see any issues with the graphic. I was able to scale it and see it in the compiled PDF, without any modification. I use MacTex. 
> 
> Your article has probably some issues that imped you from compiling it with a more recent latex installation. Since it does not compile, you don’t see the updated figure with the new scale.
> 
> In this case you should look at the full log file, there must be some error messages (if they concern the biblio, they would be in the .blg file if you use Bibtex.
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