Re: producing a PS file from TeX

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• From: Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:42:24 -0600
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Robert Cahn wrote:
> I'm trying to use dvips to produce a ps file.  On Fedora dvips seems only to
> send the output to lpr.  Is there a way of taking file.tex (which includes
> .eps figures) and producing file.ps?
> 
> /Bob Cahn
> Gipsy Trail Club
> Carmel, NY

You need to specify the Output file explicitly:

  dvips TeXFileName -o OutputFileName.ps

See 'man dvips' for more information.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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