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Re: Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?



On Thursday 16 December 2004 13:40, Richard Lyons wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:02:18PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> Following a recent discussion on this list ("Using more than one
>> driver for a laser printer?") I used CUPS to set up two virtual
>> printers that both connect to /dev/lp0 using different drivers: the
>> Brother driver
>> and the raw PostScript driver.  The first one is my default and I use
>> the second one for printing the PostScript output of commands (it
>> looks better).
>> 
>> When I run "dvips -Pps foo", the output goes to the Brother printer
>> driver.  I can get it to go the way I want with "dvips -o - foo |lpr
>> -Pps" but it annoys me that the first way doesn't work.  Any
>> suggestions?
> 
> 
> I believe that should be "dvips -P ps foo" (with a space after -P)

I get the same result with that.



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