Tim Rowe wrote:
I'm a LyX newbie, trying to set it up for the first time. When I tell it to print a document nothing comes out on my default or any other printer. I can't find anything in the documentation about setting up the printer; how do I do it?
Section 3.7.4 of the User Guide explains the setup, but my suggestion is not to use File -> Print or the print tool bar button. The print mechanism is really geared to Linux users; it also is designed to use Postscript output (and requires either a Postscript-aware printer or clever insertion of a conversion script someplace), it requires that dvips be properly configured for your printer, and in any case may not be suitable for documents that really should be done in PDF (e.g., Beamer slide presentations). Also, using File -> Print is a bit of a pig in a poke: you won't know what the output is going to look like until you've consumed paper and toner/ink.
Instead, use either DVI or PDF preview mode to get a look at the document, then use the print command in the previewer (most likely Yap for DVI and Acrobat Reader for PDF) to send the document to the printer. There's no setup involved there -- both programs use the standard Windows print dialog.
/Paul
