Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I've had this problem before (just reinstalled lyx), but forgot how I >> solved it: when printing to my networked PS printer, I get an error: >> "Unable to print. Check that your parameters are correct.." >> >> When looking in Edit/Preferences/Output/Printer i find that Printer >> command is set to "dvi2ps -o $$o $$i" >> >> When looking in Edit/Preferences/Converters, I find that DVI -> >> Postscript is also dvi2ps >> >> Any suggestions ? Im pretty sure this is a rather banal problem which >> requires only a change in Preferences, but who knows ... >> >> Soren O'Neill, Denmark >> >> >> > > A couple of things to try: > > 1. From a command prompt (assuming you're on Linux or *nix and not > Windows), try > > type dvi2ps
... is fine: dvi2ps is /usr/bin/dvi2ps > > and make sure it's installed and visible to the system. (On my Windows > box, for instance, I have dvips rather than dvi2ps, so the latter would > fail.) > > 2. Assuming dvi2ps exists and is on the command path, try > > dvips $$i dvips doesnt exist on my system: bash: dvips: command not found assuming your mean dvi2ps $$i, I get: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" > > (drop the -o $$o). The -o switch routes output to a file. > > -- Paul > > ************************************************************************* > Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 > Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 > The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ > East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) > ************************************************************************* > Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, > they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something > entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE Does this make any sense to you ?!? Soren O'Neill, Denmark
