dvips output error revisited...

[ALAN A DUNWELL]

Thanks Rolf. I can see where these will work for individual 
machines, I will probably end up with some form of this. 

I was not specific enough in my last post as to my environment. I
have installed ftTeX onto an NT file server machine so that the
files are shared by all win/95/98/2000/whatever workstations. They
just modify their path to see the bin area. So they all end up using
the same config.ps. Some may want to print to local printers, mostly
HP laserjet types, or more often to network printer queues, all
postscript printers. However different folks may want to go to 
different printers or queues, so I can't hardwire that in config.ps.

What I had hoped might be an option would be some environment var or 
some global setting in config.ps that would allow dvips to 
hand off to whatever is defined as the default windows printer. 
This is sort of what happens in UNIX when we just hand off to lpr 
and the system knows what that means. Of course fpTeX is all really 
happening in the DOS level, so maybe that can't work. I am having 
users run through WinEdit for the most part, so maybe some option 
there in the Menu Setup Options. For the time being I've just 
hardwired config.ps to go to a file by commenting out the "o" line.

Thanks,
Alan Dunwell


> From:          "Rolf S. Arvidson" <arvidson@ocean.tamu.edu>
> To:            <DUNWELL@jila.colorado.edu>
> Cc:            <fptex@tug.org>
> Subject:       Re: dvips output error revisited...
> Date:          Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:22:05 -0500

> If the printer is postscript, edit the config.ps file to reflect the
> printer's path
> o \\pcname\printername
> 
> If the printer is not a postscript printer but is the default local windows
> printer, then pipe through gs:
> o |c:\gstools\gs5.50\gswin32c -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=mswinpr2 -
> 
> In the case of networked non-postscript printers, one should be able to
> point gs to it by substituting "-sOutputFile= " for -sDEVICE=..."
> All these have worked for me (running NT sp5).
> Hope this helps.
> --Rolf
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ALAN A DUNWELL <dunwell@jnov.colorado.edu>
> To: <fptex@tug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:39 PM
> Subject: dvips output error revisited...
> 
> 
> > In a previous post (attached below) Fabrice you indicate that you
> > hoped to do something about the default output error from dvips
> > because of the |lpr command in config.ps. Did this happen? Do you
> > have any quick and dirty work arounds to get output to a networked
> > printer other than just making a .ps file and then printing from gv?
> >
> > Any hints appreciated,
> > Alan Dunwell
> >
> >
> > ----------- previous post ----------
> > > From:          "Fabrice Popineau" <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr>
> > > To:            "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>,
> > >                "Erling D. Andersen" <e.d.andersen@its.tudelft.nl>
> > > Cc:            <fptex@tug.org>
> > > Subject:       Re: dvips
> > > Date:          Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:38:04 +0200
> >
> > > > Fabrice, I thought that you did some changes to add such a feature,
> no?
> > >
> > > Not yet finished (hopefully, as soon as the students will leave there
> :-) )
> > > I could have opened PRN: and write there, but I intended to do something
> > > more realistic under windows, and print directly to the default printer,
> > > piping
> > > through gs if this printer is not postscript.
> > >
> > > Fabrice
> > >
> > >
> >
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