Thanks to everyone for trying to help me with this problem!
I'm still trying to get this to work. I needed some mailing labels for
Christmas, so I resorted to plugging in an old hard drive that has Windows 95
and Wordperfect. (By the way, is it possible to print address labels with
Lyx?)
I tried all the suggestions and still cannot get anything to print under Lyx:
I tried "kprinter" and "lp.cups" for the spool command under
edit-preferences-outputs.
I tried "ln -s printcap.cups printcap" (after renaming printcap)
so that printcap has just the following line:
HP Laserjet 6l:
Thomas Templin wrote:
==Start Postscript preview from LyX and then when printing from gv
==set the print command to kprinter instead of lpr. You should be
==able to use all your customized CUPS Printers.
==Lyx: View |> Postscript
==gv: File |> Print Document
�== � insert Print command kprinter instaed of lpr
When I click on "view" under Lyx I get only:
DVI
PDF
Update
Latex logfile
Table of Contents
I did not see a "postscript" option...
Bo Peng wrote:
==You do not have to bother with the printcap file. If you can print
==anything, CUPS is working OK. lyx generates ps files and send them to
==the printer so as long as you can 'lpr file.ps', there should be no
==problem with lyx.
Yes, "lpr file.ps" works for me. But only after I restored "etc.printcap" to:
lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#80:\
:pc#150:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
So my settings in Lyx must be wrong. But I don't know what settings to fix.
Are there any diagnostics to look at? (Error logs, etc.?)
I know nothing about printers, spools, queues, etc. Am very confused at this
point...
Peter
