Re: producing a PS file from TeX (Marc Schwartz)

[William Murray]

> 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