Hi all, Turns out the symptom happened when I ran LyX from the background instead of from a terminal. I do that in my UMENU menu system. I took out the background attribute to cure the View->Postscript problem, but now my UMENU terminal hangs around until the LyX session is closed.
I'd still like to understand how to interpret the error message. Thanks SteveT On Friday 15 June 2007 17:49, Steve Litt wrote: > But it works just fine when I: > > lyx --export mybook.lyx > latex mybook.tex > dvips -o mybook.ps mybook.tex > > I've had this problem in several of my books, and just used a script to > compile them, but now I want to solve the problem so that I can > View->Postscript. > > It seems to have nothing to do with my document class -- it happens in AMS > book, book and my modified AMS book. It sometimes doesn't happen if I run > LyX "a certain way", but of course as of now I don't know exactly what that > way is. > > Can someone help me decipher the following error message issued by > View->Postscript: > > > ERROR: /syntaxerrorESP Ghostscript 815.03: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > in -file- > Operand stack: > > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 > %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 > 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1121/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:102/200(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Current file position is 1
