Problems with LyX on Mac computers

[mark salmon]

PLease ignore my email below from last night regarding  my inablity to 
copy and paste from a PDF file into Lyx with Mac Ventura and Lyx 2.3.7- 
this was a tired error on my part after a long day struggling to get to 
lectures written- I simply confused command V with Control V on the Mac. 
It does work as it whould if I hit the correct keys. However the 
graphics issue still remains. Could this be due the the version of 
Python I have installed? Which Python version does Lyx require on the 
Mac please? How can I check and re-install. I thought I had the Xcode 
version but may  have Anaconda 3.7- but I am ignorant of these issues. 
Any ideas please?
Many many thanks so far,
Mark

On 23/01/2023 08:46, markhsalmon wrote:
> Hi Stephan
> I hit another problem last night and gave up but will try and replicate it again in the next hour when back in my office. I could not copy and paste text from a pdf document into Lyx as was trivial before. I am the person who cannot insert graphics via the normal insert graphics route but can by inserting the graphics file location. Latest version of Lyx and Ventura 13.1. This new problem is similar in that I can still with my mouse select the text from the pdf document and place the cursor where I want it in the Lyx document but now have to click paste from the menu and it works. I have to double check this when I get back to my office. I saw somewhere on the web something I didn’t understand that I” imagemagick was missing????
> Thank you for your help but this is really serious as I am in the middle of teaching and trying to prepare lecture slides.
> Many thanks
> Mark
>
>
>
> The more you know, the more you realise how little you know
>
>> On 22 Jan 2023, at 21:27, Stephan Witt<st.witt at gmx.net>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> unfortunately there is some problem with the LyX binaries on macOS Ventura. I built these binaries including the Qt frameworks. At the moment I don’t have the option to investigate the problem because I didn’t upgrade the build system (yet).
>>
>> The Universal binary was build on Big Sur and requires at least macOS 10.14. For those unable to update to Mojave (10.14) I made an Intel binary for macOS 10.12 or newer.
>>
>> I have no idea what the cause of the Ventura file open dialog is. My plan is to update the build system to macOS 13.x - so it should be possible to solve the problem then.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stephan
>>
>>> Am 22.01.2023 um 21:09 schrieb Edwin Burmeister<eb at econ.duke.edu>:
>>>
>>> Sorry, I did not realize that the current binary for LyX 2.3.7 is a Universal application. That is what I have been using.
>>>
>>> So apparently the problems encountered by Mac users are NOT due to Rosetta as I had wrongly guessed.
>>>
>>> ***********************
>>> Edwin Burmeister
>>> Research Professor of Economics Emeritus
>>> Duke University
>>> Commonwealth Professor of Economics Emeritus
>>> University of Virginia
>>> eb at econ.duke.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On Jan 22, 2023, at 2:10 PM, Christopher Menzel<chris.menzel at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon<markhsalmon at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .....I don't think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in front of me-
>>>> The two installers are not for older and newer versions of MacOS, they are for older and newer Macs — older machines have Intel chips while newer machines have Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chips). The installer for the universal LyX binary, which will run on either platform, includes the string “x86_64-arm64”; the installer for the Intel-only binary only includes the substring “x86_64”. In fact, both installers and both binaries will run on both older and newer machines (although, of course, the Intel binary requires the mediation of Rosetta on Apple Silicon machines). I suppose the Intel-only binary is a bit smaller and perhaps runs a bit faster on an Intel Mac, but would think the differences would be negligible (but I could be wrong).
>>>>
>>>>> could this be the source of the graphics problem?
>>>> No. The problem arises under Ventura no matter which LyX binary you use.
>>>>
>>>> Chris Menzel
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