Re: [SL] latex dilemma (more info)

[Keith M. <km...@be...>]

Installed tetex-dvips and actually got almost there... I now have a file that is
completely gibbled, but I have a file. The invoice is 3 pages long in ghostview.

Page 1 starts at the very top of the page... headers I guess, that will
overwrite the letterhead. Page 1 text ends about 1/3 or 1/2 way down the page.

Page 2 appears to be some tex gibberish (.aux and 2x .tex) and page 3 contains
most of the input information from the input form, and is missing most of the
end portion discussing terms etc. 

Page 3 also starts at the top of the sheet and will also overwrite the
letterhead.

So it's all formatting and such from here, which I have no experience with, so I
guess I'll be learning tex, unless someone has gone through this and has a
quick-fix?

Thanks everyone for your input and help here.

Quoting gha...@fr... from [04/04/02 21:40 -0700]:
> Hmmm, I don't think I explained that well enough.  You
> do NOT load/examine/process/... a DVI file with LaTeX.
> A DVI file is the result of running LaTeX (or TeX) on
> something else (a LaTeX source file).
I was just checking for output... I did better with a .tex file.
> 
> LaTeX has already been run.  You are running into problems
> "downstream" of LaTeX.  If you don't have dvips, I suppose
> one option would be to load that appropriate package onto
> your system.  However, for the purpose of seeing whether the
> DVI file is actually useful, I still think using xdvi to
> "view" the DVI file under X11 (which you might know as
> KDE, Gnome, IceWM, ...) is the thing to do.  If you don't
> have xdvi, there is probably a package you can load.
> 
> Is this clearer?
> 
Absolutely. Thank you.
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