Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [posted and mailed] > > Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>>> I get: >>>> dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" >>>> >>> >>>> Does this make any sense to you ?!? >>> >>> Well, the good news is that dvi2ps seems to be executing. There >>> might be some kind of problem with the path to the dvi file. What >>> happens if you try to export a file from LyX as Postscript? Do you >>> get an error message? >>> >>> LyX should create a temporary directory, output a TeX file to that >>> directory, run latex against it (so that the DVI file is in the temp >>> directory), then run dvi2ps against that DVI file and write the PS >>> file to the directory containing the original LyX document. The same >>> should happen with the printer (other than not writing PS file to >>> disk). Another thing to try is to print a document and then, without >>> closing the LyX document, look in the temporary directory and see if >>> a DVI file was written there (and whether its name matches the one in >>> the error message). >>> >> No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. >> Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 >> > > I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to > find (or open) the DVI file. > > Start LyX, open a document, either print it or try to export it to PS, > then (without closing LyX or the document) check the temp directory LyX > is using for that document. Is the DVI file there? If so, what's its > name? If not, is there a .tex file there?
I find a directory in /tmp called lyc_tmpdir****/lyx_tmpbuf0/ Before printing its empty. After trying to print it contains: protocol_0.2.aux protocol_0.2.blg protocol_0.2.log protocol_0.2.tex.dep protocol_0.2.bbl protocol_0.2.dvi protocol_0.2.tex (my document is called protocol_0.2) I can open up the DVI fine and it looks just fine... > > One other thing: does the log file indicate that latex.exe was able to > process the source file ok? (If latex.exe didn't produce a DVI file, > that would explain things.) Well it does seem to produce a DVI file alright, is it the path to my printer which is set wrong ? As mentioned in Lyx/Preferences/Printer, the Printer Command is set to dvi2ps I have tried to change it to lp, lp0, lpr and hp1300n (my printer name) - no success ... Soren > > -- 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
