William John Murray wrote: >>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 >> >> > > Hi guys, > man dvips is not helpful in telling you where the config file is. > /usr/share/texmf/pdvips/config/config.ps is the name, a rather odd one > to my mind. Anyway, edit that, and comment out the pipe to printer. This > is a very counter-intuitive (and potentially expensive) default. > Could it be changed for FC5? > Bill If you want it changed, better file an RFE with Bugzilla. This default behavior has been around for some time. Marc
