> > After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex > > documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print > > fine. > > > > xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the > > following file: > > > > $dvips quantum.tex typo-- I meant $dvips quantum.dvi > > > > the printed output is [some Postscript/TeX garbage] > > [..] > > "Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answered: > > > Yup. that's the right output. The dvips is used to create ps from dvi file. > > You need to use -o option for dvips to create a ps file and then you can > > use > > gv to view the ps file. Check out man dvips. > > Yes, you can do it that way. A better way seems to me, to install either > APSfilter, Magicfilter, or CUPS. These packages install filters that are > invoked by lpr. As a result, lpr recognizes the content type of the > file (e.g. postscript, dvi, plain text or some graphics format), > translates it automatically to the native code of your printer and > then sends it to the queue of your printer. As a result, you can give > the command: > > $ lpr quantum.dvi > > or, when the dvi file contains postscript: > > $ dvips -f quantum |lpr > > I cannot tell which of the three packages APSfilter, magicfilter or > CUPS is best. I use magicfilter and that works very well
I have apsfilter installed. I still get the same results, trying both of the commands above. When I went to the www.radicaleye.com webpage it said if I had a file beginning with '%!PS' I should go to the ghostscript webpage. Now I'm wondering if I have ghostscript properly installed? I tried installing gs-aladdin from testing sources, it removed tetex-extra, gs, and gsfonts. Still the same results.
