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
> 
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Does this make any sense to you ?!?

Soren O'Neill, Denmark


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