Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: 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. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren: you probably

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Soren O'Neill wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just tried to print the DVI from a DVI viewer, it complains that: The external program 'dvips', which was used to export the file, reported an error. You might wish to look at the document info dialog which

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct path to the

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: 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. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren: you probably

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Soren O'Neill wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just tried to print the DVI from a DVI viewer, it complains that: The external program 'dvips', which was used to export the file, reported an error. You might wish to look at the document info dialog which

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct path to the

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: >>> 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. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren:

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Soren O'Neill wrote: > 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Just tried to print the DVI from a DVI viewer, it complains that: > The external program 'dvips', which was used to export the file, > reported an error. You might wish to look at the document info dialog >

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>> dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" > > I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in > particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given > an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct >

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [posted and mailed] > > Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> >>> 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" >> >> I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in >> particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given >> an incorrect name for the DVI file (or

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-12 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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 did -- my

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: 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 dvips $$i is not supposed to be executed in a shell prompt: in fact your shell is expanding $$ as the shell

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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 did -- my

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: 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 dvips $$i is not supposed to be executed in a shell prompt: in fact your shell is expanding $$ as the shell

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> 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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [posted and mailed] > > Soren O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> >>> 2. Assuming dvi2ps exists and is on the command path, try >>> >>> dvips $$i >> >> dvips doesnt exist on my system: >> bash: dvips: command not

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: >> 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" dvips $$i is not supposed to be executed in a shell prompt: in fact your shell is expanding $$ as

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-09 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-09 Thread Soren O'Neill
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

Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-09 Thread Soren O'Neill
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