On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> > > How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can > >> > > print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would > >> > > like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes > >> > > want to print old files and not have to preview them first. > >> > > >> > Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended > >> > method. > >> > >> Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? > > > > I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a > > viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. > > Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what > > File->Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same > > doc tend to differ a bit. > > Does it seem strange to have a "document processor" that cannot print? > > I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File->Print > that doesn't work.
Christian, The problem with that thought is that on my system it Just Works, without any arcane settings. And mine is not a particularly simple setup: I'm running Gentoo Linux, with CUPS printing, on a rather complicated network, and LyX just defaults to running a document through dvips and sending it to the default printer. However . . . as many LyX users do, I usually use pdflatex for my default preview and most common export. And some figures which work perfectly with pdflatex do not work at all with latex. When I try to print a document with such figures, the printing fails with the message: "Could not print document name.lyx. Check that your printer is set up correctly." Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
