I tried other viewers - foxit on windows and kpdf (xpdf variant of KDE) on linux, and they both failed to print the file correctly, even when the file is made on a lyx 1.4.2 on Linux.
Does that mean that the file itself (or the eps figures of Origin) is somehow non-standard, and only ghostview for some reason is able to handle it? Too many things changed since my wife successfully printed her thesis on lyx 1.4.1 on Windows, with MikTex 2.4. We still have her original pdf, and it DOES NOT print the Origin figures correctly now, but it did before. I am really confused. Things seem to contradict. If anyone has anything other than sympathy, please share. I really need to get this fixed. Miki