producing a PS file from TeX (Marc Schwartz)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, 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

Individual users can set these defaults for themselves using the 
texconfig(1) CLI utility.  Individual user settings are kept in 
~/.texmf-config.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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