Any LaTeX experts out here?

[Glenn R Williams]

Tycho,

Did you use "dvi2ps"? Or was that just a misspelling. If so, try using "dvips" 
which comes with the TeX Live distro (also in Ubuntu).

HTH,

Glenn

On Thursday 22 January 2009 11:57:34 Tycho Andersen wrote:
> I recently wrote and submitted my first academic paper (hooray!). I've
> installed and been using the texlive-full to do this. I used pdftex as
> my compiler while writing the paper, but now I would like to post DVI
> and PS files on my web page so that people can download it in the
> format they prefer.
>
> I've changed everything necessary to compile a DVI, and it compiles
> fine and I've verified the output, so that's good. However, when I run
> dvi2ps to try and convert, I get the following output:
>
> tycho at mittens:~/www/pubs/inss2009$ dvi2ps inss2009.dvi
>
> dvi2ps: FATAL-- cannot open fontdesc file "bikan-mor2"
>
> Google yeilds nothing useful (rather, nothing in my only language
> English). Is the (K)Ubuntu package missing this file?
>
> TIA,
> Tycho