Re: dvips printing problem
Disclaimer: I'm no expert.
Lame work-around: When I had difficulties with dvips, I was able to use
dvipdfm for most purposes. I don't know if divpdfm comes with Linux but
it's on CTAN. Of course, you need to be able to print pdf files then. I
used the Acrobat reader. I know--if you were interested in this approach
you'ld probably be using pdfTeX already...
Lame diagnostic: Use texconfig to have dvips write your postscript file to
disk. Or just see if you can any ps file to print. At least that reduces
the complexity of your problem. :(
Mark Copper
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote:
> I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory
> solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now..
>
> When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints
> out is the following:
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software
> %%Title: quantum.dvi
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> ....(more header then a page full of misc garbage)
>
> When I go to the www.radicaleye.com page, it says if you are receiving
> the %!PS at the beginning of a file and you don't know how to print it,
> you need to install GhostScript.
>
> When I was running stable the dvips command would print fine. After
> upgrading to woody, I encountered this problem. I tried upgrading to
> sid, but no luck, same problem.
>
> According to apt, I have the latest gs package installed, I also tried
> install the Aladdin ghostscript package but I got the same results from
> it.
>
> This is a frustrating problem as I need to be able to print a letter
> with latex.
>
> thanks
> dale
>
>
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