Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Chris> Dear All, I'm trying to get some Postscript figures into my Lyx
> > Chris> documents. I appear to be able to import them into the .lyx
> > Chris> file okay, though I can't "View dvi", "View Postsript" or
> > Chris> "Print" as each time I get the following error:
> >
> > Chris> ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ps.
> >
> > Chris> |.24 ...degraphics{filename.ps} \par}
> >
> >
> > Chris> The .ps files I'm using were generated with Uniras v7.0, though
> > Chris> I think the problem is to do with my Lyx installation.
> >
> > Chris> Any ideas, anybody please?
> >
> > As far as I know, you are not supposed to include .ps files, but .eps
> > ones. A PS file is supposed to be send on printer. An EPS file (E
> > stands for encapsulated) has information such as a bounding box, and
> > can possibly be included in another document.
>
> While this is probably true, most .ps files work fine in both LyX and
> LaTeX. If there is a problem, it may be with the particular file format. I
> believe there is a ps2eps command line program which one could try for
> converting ps to eps. Also, I would make sure that the files can be viewed
> with gv or ghostview.
>
> Thanks. Syrus.
>
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Thanks for the help chaps,
After some trawling I found that if I explicitly reset
"Layout-Document-PS Driver" to "dvips" (rather than leaving it on
default) I have managed to get over the problem without having to
convert .ps files any further
Cheers for the suggestions, Chris
> Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
