[Klug-general] Print problem with xfig

[Mike Rentell]

Thanks for that Margot, especially for taking the trouble to try it. I 
will pass the info to my colleague and see if that improves things for him.

As for my two printers, I think I may have a small problem here, but 
will continue fiddling around.

MikeR
in Folkestone

Margot wrote:
> Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> A colleague and I are preparing a book for publication. He is the 
>> author and wants to use xfig under Linux to add some diagrams.
>>
>> We use Mandriva 2008 and found the gui package available to install 
>> directly from the distro. No problems there.
>>
>> His first xfig.fig trial drawing is attached. His system prints it OK 
>> but won't export it - just lists errors.
>>
>> But on my system I can export it OK to several formats (not tried them 
>> all) but when I ask it to print on either of my printers if comes out 
>> blank.
>>
>> We are baffled, anyone any relevant experience and advice about xfig? 
>> 'twould help a lot. Ta.
>>
>> MikeR
>> in Folkestone
>>
> 
> Never used xfig before, but installed it just to try to help you.
> 
> I'm using Mandriva 2008.1 and xfig-3.2.5-4mdv2008.1.i586.rpm from the 
> Mandriva CD.
> 
> Your colleague's drawing prints without any problems on my Epson DX8400.
> 
> I tried exporting the file, and got an error message when exporting to 
> /home/margot/tmp but it worked fine when exporting to /home/margot so 
> maybe your colleague should try changing the directory to which he is 
> trying to export the file.
>